The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was · page 31 2 3201‘No,’ he answered; ‘what can it be?202My dead cousin was here, and a bearded man came and showed me a great deal of money down below, but no one told me what it was to shudder.’203‘Then,’ said the king, ‘you have saved the castle, and shall marry my daughter.’204‘That is all very well,’ said he, ‘but still I do not know what it is to shudder!’205Then the gold was brought up and the wedding celebrated; but howsoever much the young king loved his wife, and however happy he was, he still said always: ‘If I could but shudder--if I could but shudder.’206And this at last angered her.207Her waiting-maid said: ‘I will find a cure for him; he shall soon learn what it is to shudder.’208She went out to the stream which flowed through the garden, and had a whole bucketful of gudgeons brought to her.209At night when the young king was sleeping, his wife was to draw the clothes off him and empty the bucket full of cold water with the gudgeons in it over him, so that the little fishes would sprawl about him.210Then he woke up and cried: ‘Oh, what makes me shudder so?--what makes me shudder so, dear wife?211Ah! now I know what it is to shudder!’1 2 3← previousThe Saladnext →King Grisly-beard↑ back to Grimms' Fairy TalesThis page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/57/page/3/