` 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 with the white wolf , for I promised you to him , and I must keep my word . ' So the princess got ready to leave her home ; but first she went to her room to fetch her wreath of wild flowers , which she took with her . Then the white wolf swung her on his back and bore her away . But when they came to the place where he had rested with the servant-maid , he told her to dismount that they might rest for a little at the roadside . Then he turned to her and said : ' I wonder what your father would do if this forest belonged to him ? ' -LSB- Illustration : THE · WHITE · WOLF · ASKS · THE · PRINCESS · A · QUESTION · IN · THE · WOOD -RSB- And the princess answered : ` My father would cut down the trees and turn it into a beautiful park and gardens , and he and his courtiers would come and wander among the glades in the summer time . ' ` This is the real princess , ' said the wolf to himself . But aloud he said : ` Mount once more on my back , and I will bear you to my castle . '
And when she was seated XXXXX his back he set out through the woods , and he ran , and ran , and ran , till at last he stopped in front of a stately courtyard , with massive gates .
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