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1There was once a king, whose queen had hair of the purest gold, and was so beautiful that her match was not to be met
2with on the whole face of the earth. But this beautiful queen fell ill, and when she felt that her end drew near she
3called the king to her and said, 'Promise me that you will never marry again, unless you meet with a wife who is as
4beautiful as I am, and who has golden hair like mine.' Then when the king in his grief promised all she asked, she shut
5her eyes and died. But the king was not to be comforted, and for a long time never thought of taking another wife. At
6last, however, his wise men said, 'this will not do; the king must marry again, that we may have a queen.' So messengers
7were sent far and wide, to seek for a bride as beautiful as the late queen. But there was no princess in the world so
8beautiful; and if there had been, still there was not one to be found who had golden hair. So the messengers came home,
9and had had all their trouble for nothing. Now the king had a daughter, who was just as beautiful as her mother, and had
10the same golden hair. And when she was grown up, the king looked at her and saw that she was just like this late queen:
11then he said to his courtiers, 'May I not marry my daughter? She is the very image of my dead wife: unless I have her, I
12shall not find any bride upon the whole earth, and you say there must be a queen.' When the courtiers heard this they
13were shocked, and said, 'Heaven forbid that a father should marry his daughter! Out of so great a sin no good can come.'
14And his daughter was also shocked, but hoped the king would soon give up such thoughts; so she said to him, 'Before I
15marry anyone I must have three dresses: one must be of gold, like the sun; another must be of shining silver, like the
16moon; and a third must be dazzling as the stars: besides this, I want a mantle of a thousand different kinds of fur put
17together, to which every beast in the kingdom must give a part of his skin.' And thus she thought he would think of the
18matter no more. But the king made the most skilful workmen in his kingdom weave the three dresses: one golden, like the
19sun; another silvery, like the moon; and a third sparkling, like the stars: and his hunters were told to hunt out all
20the beasts in his kingdom, and to take the finest fur out of their skins: and thus a mantle of a thousand furs was made.
21When all were ready, the king sent them to her; but she got up in the night when all were asleep, and took three of her
22trinkets, a golden ring, a golden necklace, and a golden brooch, and packed the three dresses--of the sun, the moon, and
23the stars--up in a nutshell, and wrapped herself up in the mantle made of all sorts of fur, and besmeared her face and
24hands with soot. Then she threw herself upon Heaven for help in her need, and went away, and journeyed on the whole
25night, till at last she came to a large wood. As she was very tired, she sat herself down in the hollow of a tree and
26soon fell asleep: and there she slept on till it was midday. Now as the king to whom the wood belonged was hunting in
27it, his dogs came to the tree, and began to snuff about, and run round and round, and bark. 'Look sharp!' said the king
28to the huntsmen, 'and see what sort of game lies there.' And the huntsmen went up to the tree, and when they came back
29again said, 'In the hollow tree there lies a most wonderful beast, such as we never saw before; its skin seems to be of
30a thousand kinds of fur, but there it lies fast asleep.' 'See,' said the king, 'if you can catch it alive, and we will
31take it with us.' So the huntsmen took it up, and the maiden awoke and was greatly frightened, and said, 'I am a poor
32child that has neither father nor mother left; have pity on me and take me with you.' Then they said, 'Yes, Miss
33Cat-skin, you will do for the kitchen; you can sweep up the ashes, and do things of that sort.' So they put her into the
34coach, and took her home to the king's palace. Then they showed her a little corner under the staircase, where no light
35of day ever peeped in, and said, 'Cat-skin, you may lie and sleep there.' And she was sent into the kitchen, and made to
36fetch wood and water, to blow the fire, pluck the poultry, pick the herbs, sift the ashes, and do all the dirty work.
37Thus Cat-skin lived for a long time very sorrowfully. 'Ah! pretty princess!' thought she, 'what will now become of
38thee?' But it happened one day that a feast was to be held in the king's castle, so she said to the cook, 'May I go up a
39little while and see what is going on? I will take care and stand behind the door.' And the cook said, 'Yes, you may go,
40but be back again in half an hour's time, to rake out the ashes.' Then she took her little lamp, and went into her
41cabin, and took off the fur skin, and washed the soot from off her face and hands, so that her beauty shone forth like
42the sun from behind the clouds. She next opened her nutshell, and brought out of it the dress that shone like the sun,
43and so went to the feast. Everyone made way for her, for nobody knew her, and they thought she could be no less than a
44king's daughter. But the king came up to her, and held out his hand and danced with her; and he thought in his heart, 'I
45never saw any one half so beautiful.' When the dance was at an end she curtsied; and when the king looked round for her,
46she was gone, no one knew wither. The guards that stood at the castle gate were called in: but they had seen no one. The
47truth was, that she had run into her little cabin, pulled off her dress, blackened her face and hands, put on the
48fur-skin cloak, and was Cat-skin again. When she went into the kitchen to her work, and began to rake the ashes, the
49cook said, 'Let that alone till the morning, and heat the king's soup; I should like to run up now and give a peep: but
50take care you don't let a hair fall into it, or you will run a chance of never eating again.' As soon as the cook went
51away, Cat-skin heated the king's soup, and toasted a slice of bread first, as nicely as ever she could; and when it was
52ready, she went and looked in the cabin for her little golden ring, and put it into the dish in which the soup was. When
53the dance was over, the king ordered his soup to be brought in; and it pleased him so well, that he thought he had never
54tasted any so good before. At the bottom he saw a gold ring lying; and as he could not make out how it had got there, he
55ordered the cook to be sent for. The cook was frightened when he heard the order, and said to Cat-skin, 'You must have
56let a hair fall into the soup; if it be so, you will have a good beating.' Then he went before the king, and he asked
57him who had cooked the soup. 'I did,' answered the cook. But the king said, 'That is not true; it was better done than
58you could do it.' Then he answered, 'To tell the truth I did not cook it, but Cat-skin did.' 'Then let Cat-skin come
59up,' said the king: and when she came he said to her, 'Who are you?' 'I am a poor child,' said she, 'that has lost both
60father and mother.' 'How came you in my palace?' asked he. 'I am good for nothing,' said she, 'but to be scullion-girl,
61and to have boots and shoes thrown at my head.' 'But how did you get the ring that was in the soup?' asked the king.
62Then she would not own that she knew anything about the ring; so the king sent her away again about her business.
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