“Every morning she went with the child to the garden where the wild beasts were kept, and washed herself there in a clear stream. It happened once when the child was a little older, that it was lying in her arms and she fell asleep. Then came the old cook, who knew that the child had the power of wishing, and stole it away, and he took a hen, and cut it in pieces, and drojDped some of its blood on the Queen's apron and on her dress.”

— Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 76 · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan