` Take heart , ' she said , ` all will now go well ! Wrap yourself in this skin , and leave the palace and go as far as you can . I will look after you . Your dresses and your jewels shall follow you underground , and if you strike the earth whenever you need anything , you will have it at once . But go quickly : you have no time to lose . ' So the princess clothed herself in the ass 's skin , and slipped from the palace without being seen by anyone . Directly she was missed there was a great hue and cry , and every corner , possible and impossible , was searched . Then the king sent out parties along all the roads , but the fairy threw her invisible mantle over the girl when they approached , and none of them could see her . The princess walked on a long , long way , trying to find some one who would take her in , and let her work for them ; but though the cottagers , whose houses she passed , gave her food from charity , the ass 's skin was so dirty they would not allow her to enter their houses . For her flight had been so hurried she had had no time to clean it . Tired and disheartened at her ill-fortune , she was wandering , one day , past the gate of a farmyard , situated just outside the walls of a large town , when she heard a voice calling to her . She turned and saw the farmer 's wife standing among her turkeys , and making signs to her to come in . ' I want a girl to wash the dishes and feed the turkeys , and clean out the pig-sty , ' said the woman , ` and , to judge by your dirty clothes , you would not be too fine for the work . ' The girl accepted her offer with joy , and she was at once set to work in a corner of the kitchen , where all the farm servants came and made fun of her , and the ass 's skin in which she was wrapped . But by-and-by they got so used to the sight of it that it ceased to amuse them , and she worked so hard and so well , that her mistress grew quite fond of her . And she was so clever at keeping sheep and herding turkeys that you would have thought she had done nothing else during her whole life ! One day she was sitting on the banks of a stream bewailing her wretched lot , when she suddenly caught sight of herself in the water . Her hair and part of her face was quite concealed by the ass 's head , which was drawn right over like a hood , and the filthy matted skin covered her whole body . It was the first time she had seen herself as other people saw her , and she was filled with shame at the spectacle . Then she threw off her disguise and jumped into the water , plunging in again and again , till she shone like ivory .
When it was time XXXXX go back to the farm , she was forced to put on the skin which disguised her , and now seemed more dirty than ever ; but , as she did so , she comforted herself with the thought that to-morrow was a holiday , and that she would be able for a few hours to forget that she was a farm girl , and be a princess once more .
For along among at during from of till to with