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pretty, pretty things! Give me your first baby, when it is born, and I will spin the straw into gold for you."
What would you have said, if you had been the baker's daughter?
I think I would have said:
"No!"
But she said:
"Yes!"
Faster, faster and faster went the spinning wheel. Until all the straw was gone.
The Prince was very pleased with all the gold and married the baker's daughter, who now became a Princess.
After a year a baby was born.
One night as the Princess was singing the baby to sleep she heard:
"Ha, ha, ha! Ha, ha, ha!"
It was the voice of the horrible little man. The Princess hid the baby under her shawl.
"Give me the baby! Ha, ha, ha! Ha, ha, ha!" He said.
The Princess started to cry:
"Please do not take my baby, give me a chance to keep my baby, please!"
The little man held his chin for a while then said:
"A chance? All right I will give you a chance! If you can guess my name in three days you can keep your baby!" Then the little man vanished.
The Princess got busy straight away and wrote down all the boys names she could think of.
The next day the little man came and asked:
"Have you guessed my name?"
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