“" He, too, pleased the maiden so much that she agreed and said, " Yes, I will be thy wife, and be true to thee thy whole life lono;." Then they were married, and just as they were in the greatest happiness, home came the father of the bride, and when he saw that his daughter's wedding was being celebrated, he was astonished, and said, " Where is the bridegroom? " They showed him the gold-child, who, however, still wore his bear-skins.”

— Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 85 · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan