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1There was once upon a time a soldier who for many years had served the king faithfully, but when the war came to an end
2could serve no longer because of the many wounds which he had received. The king said to him: 'You may return to your
3home, I need you no longer, and you will not receive any more money, for he only receives wages who renders me service
4for them.' Then the soldier did not know how to earn a living, went away greatly troubled, and walked the whole day,
5until in the evening he entered a forest. When darkness came on, he saw a light, which he went up to, and came to a
6house wherein lived a witch. 'Do give me one night's lodging, and a little to eat and drink,' said he to her, 'or I
7shall starve.' 'Oho!' she answered, 'who gives anything to a run-away soldier? Yet will I be compassionate, and take you
8in, if you will do what I wish.' 'What do you wish?' said the soldier. 'That you should dig all round my garden for me,
9tomorrow.' The soldier consented, and next day laboured with all his strength, but could not finish it by the evening.
10'I see well enough,' said the witch, 'that you can do no more today, but I will keep you yet another night, in payment
11for which you must tomorrow chop me a load of wood, and chop it small.' The soldier spent the whole day in doing it, and
12in the evening the witch proposed that he should stay one night more. 'Tomorrow, you shall only do me a very trifling
13piece of work. Behind my house, there is an old dry well, into which my light has fallen, it burns blue, and never goes
14out, and you shall bring it up again.' Next day the old woman took him to the well, and let him down in a basket. He
15found the blue light, and made her a signal to draw him up again. She did draw him up, but when he came near the edge,
16she stretched down her hand and wanted to take the blue light away from him. 'No,' said he, perceiving her evil
17intention, 'I will not give you the light until I am standing with both feet upon the ground.' The witch fell into a
18passion, let him fall again into the well, and went away. The poor soldier fell without injury on the moist ground, and
19the blue light went on burning, but of what use was that to him? He saw very well that he could not escape death. He sat
20for a while very sorrowfully, then suddenly he felt in his pocket and found his tobacco pipe, which was still half full.
21'This shall be my last pleasure,' thought he, pulled it out, lit it at the blue light and began to smoke. When the smoke
22had circled about the cavern, suddenly a little black dwarf stood before him, and said: 'Lord, what are your commands?'
23'What my commands are?' replied the soldier, quite astonished. 'I must do everything you bid me,' said the little man.
24'Good,' said the soldier; 'then in the first place help me out of this well.' The little man took him by the hand, and
25led him through an underground passage, but he did not forget to take the blue light with him. On the way the dwarf
26showed him the treasures which the witch had collected and hidden there, and the soldier took as much gold as he could
27carry. When he was above, he said to the little man: 'Now go and bind the old witch, and carry her before the judge.' In
28a short time she came by like the wind, riding on a wild tom-cat and screaming frightfully. Nor was it long before the
29little man reappeared. 'It is all done,' said he, 'and the witch is already hanging on the gallows. What further
30commands has my lord?' inquired the dwarf. 'At this moment, none,' answered the soldier; 'you can return home, only be
31at hand immediately, if I summon you.' 'Nothing more is needed than that you should light your pipe at the blue light,
32and I will appear before you at once.' Thereupon he vanished from his sight. The soldier returned to the town from which
33he came. He went to the best inn, ordered himself handsome clothes, and then bade the landlord furnish him a room as
34handsome as possible. When it was ready and the soldier had taken possession of it, he summoned the little black manikin
35and said: 'I have served the king faithfully, but he has dismissed me, and left me to hunger, and now I want to take my
36revenge.' 'What am I to do?' asked the little man. 'Late at night, when the king's daughter is in bed, bring her here in
37her sleep, she shall do servant's work for me.' The manikin said: 'That is an easy thing for me to do, but a very
38dangerous thing for you, for if it is discovered, you will fare ill.' When twelve o'clock had struck, the door sprang
39open, and the manikin carried in the princess. 'Aha! are you there?' cried the soldier, 'get to your work at once! Fetch
40the broom and sweep the chamber.' When she had done this, he ordered her to come to his chair, and then he stretched out
41his feet and said: 'Pull off my boots,' and then he threw them in her face, and made her pick them up again, and clean
42and brighten them. She, however, did everything he bade her, without opposition, silently and with half-shut eyes. When
43the first cock crowed, the manikin carried her back to the royal palace, and laid her in her bed. Next morning when the
44princess arose she went to her father, and told him that she had had a very strange dream. 'I was carried through the
45streets with the rapidity of lightning,' said she, 'and taken into a soldier's room, and I had to wait upon him like a
46servant, sweep his room, clean his boots, and do all kinds of menial work. It was only a dream, and yet I am just as
47tired as if I really had done everything.' 'The dream may have been true,' said the king. 'I will give you a piece of
48advice. Fill your pocket full of peas, and make a small hole in the pocket, and then if you are carried away again, they
49will fall out and leave a track in the streets.' But unseen by the king, the manikin was standing beside him when he
50said that, and heard all. At night when the sleeping princess was again carried through the streets, some peas certainly
51did fall out of her pocket, but they made no track, for the crafty manikin had just before scattered peas in every
52street there was. And again the princess was compelled to do servant's work until cock-crow. Next morning the king sent
53his people out to seek the track, but it was all in vain, for in every street poor children were sitting, picking up
54peas, and saying: 'It must have rained peas, last night.' 'We must think of something else,' said the king; 'keep your
55shoes on when you go to bed, and before you come back from the place where you are taken, hide one of them there, I will
56soon contrive to find it.' The black manikin heard this plot, and at night when the soldier again ordered him to bring
57the princess, revealed it to him, and told him that he knew of no expedient to counteract this stratagem, and that if
58the shoe were found in the soldier's house it would go badly with him. 'Do what I bid you,' replied the soldier, and
59again this third night the princess was obliged to work like a servant, but before she went away, she hid her shoe under
60the bed.
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