But I will help you . Here are a pair of shoes . If you put these on you will be able to walk on glass or ice , and to climb the steepest places . And here is a spinning-wheel , with which you will be able to spin moss into silk . When you leave me you will reach a glass mountain . Put on the shoes that I have given you and with them you will be able to climb it quite easily . At the summit you will find the palace of the white wolf . ' Then the princess set out , and before long she reached the glass mountain , and at the summit she found the white wolf 's palace , as the sun had said . But no one recognised her , as she had disguised herself as an old woman , and had wound a shawl round her head . Great preparations were going on in the palace for the wedding , which was to take place next day . Then the princess , still disguised as an old woman , took out her spinning-wheel , and began to spin moss into silk . And as she spun the new bride passed by , and seeing the moss turn into silk , she said to the old woman : ` Little mother , I wish you would give me that spinning-wheel . ' -LSB- Illustration : The Bride wishes to buy the Spinning-Wheel -RSB- And the princess answered , ' I will give it to you if you will allow me to sleep to-night on the mat outside the prince 's door . ' And the bride replied , ` Yes , you may sleep on the mat outside the door . ' So the princess gave her the spinning-wheel . And that night , winding the shawl all round her , so that no one could recognise her , she lay down on the mat outside the white wolf 's door . And when everyone in the palace was asleep she began to tell the whole of her story . She told how she had been one of three sisters , and that she had been the youngest and the fairest of the three , and that her father had betrothed her to a white wolf . And she told how she had gone first to the wedding of one sister , and then with her husband to the wedding of the other sister , and how her mother had ordered the servant to throw the white fur skin into the kitchen fire . And then she told of her wanderings through the forest ; and of how she had sought the white wolf weeping ; and how the wind and star and moon and sun had befriended her , and had helped her to reach his palace .
And when the white wolf heard all the story , he knew XXXXX it was his first wife , who had sought him , and had found him , after such great dangers and difficulties .
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