But all along the road he met no living creature till he turned into the palace gates , where his youngest daughter was waiting to welcome him home . That evening the king was very sad , remembering his promise ; and when he told the queen what had happened , she too shed bitter tears . And the youngest princess asked them why they both looked so sad , and why they wept . Then her father told her what a price he would have to pay for the wreath of wild flowers he had brought home to her , for in three days a white wolf would come and claim her and carry her away , and they would never see her again . But the queen thought and thought , and at last she hit upon a plan . There was in the palace a servant maid the same age and the same height as the princess , and the queen dressed her up in a beautiful dress belonging to her daughter , and determined to give her to the white wolf , who would never know the difference . On the third day the wolf strode into the palace yard and up the great stairs , to the room where the king and queen were seated . ' I have come to claim your promise , ' he said . ` Give me your youngest daughter . ' Then they led the servant maid up to him , and he said to her : ` You must mount on my back , and I will take you to my castle . ' And with these words he swung her on to his back and left the palace . When they reached the place where he had met the king and given him the wreath of wild flowers , he stopped , and told her to dismount that they might rest a little . So they sat down by the roadside . ' I wonder , ' said the wolf , ` what your father would do if this forest belonged to him ? ' And the girl answered : ` My father is a poor man , so he would cut down the trees , and saw them into planks , and he would sell the planks , and we should never be poor again ; but would always have enough to eat . ' Then the wolf knew that he had not got the real princess , and he swung the servant-maid on to his back and carried her to the castle . And he strode angrily into the king 's chamber , and spoke . ` Give me the real princess at once . If you deceive me again I will cause such a storm to burst over your palace that the walls will fall in , and you will all be buried in the ruins . ' Then the king and the queen wept , but they saw there was no escape .
So they sent for their youngest daughter , and the king said to her : ` Dearest child , you must go XXXXX the white wolf , for I promised you to him , and I must keep my word . '
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