If you will step in here you shall have my daughter for a wife , and I will send attendants with her , and as many horses and servants as you wish . ' ' A thousand thanks , ' returned Scioravante ; ' I shall be delighted to marry your daughter , but it is quite unnecessary to send anyone to accompany her . Give me a horse and I will carry off the princess in front of my saddle , and will bring her to my own kingdom , where there is no lack of courtiers or servants , or , indeed , of anything your daughter can desire . ' At first the king was very much against Cannetella 's departing in this fashion ; but finally Scioravante got his way , and placing the princess before him on his horse , he set out for his own country . Towards evening he dismounted , and entering a stable he placed Cannetella in the same stall as his horse , and said to her : ` Now listen to what I have to say . I am going to my home now , and that is a seven years ' journey from here ; you must wait for me in this stable , and never move from the spot , or let yourself be seen by a living soul . If you disobey my commands , it will be the worse for you . ' -LSB- Illustration : SCIORAVANTE LEAVES CANNETELLA IN THE STABLE -RSB- The princess answered meekly : ` Sir I am your servant , and will do exactly as you bid me ; but I should like to know what I am to live on till you come back ? ' ` You can take what the horses leave , ' was Scioravante 's reply . When the magician had left her Cannetella felt very miserable , and bitterly cursed the day she was born . She spent all her time weeping and bemoaning the cruel fate that had driven her from a palace into a stable , from soft , down cushions to a bed of straw , and from the dainties of her father 's table to the food that the horses left . She led this wretched life for a few months , and during that time she never saw who fed and watered the horses , for it was all done by invisible hands . One day , when she was more than usually unhappy , she perceived a little crack in the wall , through which she could see a beautiful garden , with all manner of delicious fruits and flowers growing in it . The sight and smell of such delicacies were too much for poor Cannetella , and she said to herself , ' I will slip quietly out , and pick a few oranges and grapes , and I do n't care what happens . Who is there to tell my husband what I do ? and even if he should hear of my disobedience , he can not make my life more miserable than it is already . ' So she slipped out and refreshed her poor , starved body with the fruit she plucked in the garden . But a short time afterwards her husband returned unexpectedly , and one of the horses instantly told him that Cannetella had gone into the garden , in his absence , and had stolen some oranges and grapes . Scioravante was furious when he heard this , and seizing a huge knife from his pocket he threatened to kill his wife for her disobedience . But Cannetella threw herself at his feet and implored him to spare her life , saying that hunger drove even the wolf from the wood .
XXXXX last she succeeded in so far softening her husband 's heart that he said , ' I will forgive you this time , and spare your life ; but if you disobey me again , and I hear , on my return , that you have as much as moved out of the stall , I will certainly kill you .
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