The Pink Fairy Book, part 25 · page 21 2101As soon as they had done so the storm ceased and the waves fell.102The boat drove ashore below their father’s castle, and both princes were received with open arms by their father and mother, who had suffered great anxiety for them.103The two brothers said nothing about what they had promised, neither at that time nor later on when the queen’s third son came, a beautiful boy, whom she loved more than anything else in the world.104He was brought up and educated in his father’s house until he was full grown, and still his brothers had never seen or heard anything about the witch to whom they had promised him before he was born.105It happened one evening that there arose a raging storm, with mist and darkness.106It howled and roared around the king’s palace, and in the midst of it there came a loud knock on the door of the hall where the youngest prince was.107He went to the door and found there an old woman with a dough- trough on her back, who said to him that he must go with her at once; his brothers had promised him to her if she would save their lives.108‘Yes,’ said he; ‘if you saved my brothers’ lives, and they promised me to you, then I will go with you.’109They therefore went down to the beach together, where he had to take his seat in the trough, along with the witch, who sailed away with him, over the sea, home to her dwelling.1 2← previousThe Pink Fairy Book, part 24next →The Pink Fairy Book, part 26↑ back to The Pink Fairy BookThis page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/25/page/2/