Pretty cock,
Pretty hen,
And you, pretty brindled cow,
What do you say now?

The beasts answered, 'Duks,' and everything happened as on the
former day.

The girl cooked a good meal, ate and drank with the old man, and
did not trouble herself about the animals.

And when she asked for a bed, they replied:

You have eaten with him
You have drunk with him,
Of us you have not thought,
Now sleep as you ought!

And when she was asleep, the old man shook his head over her, and
let her fall into the cellar.

On the third morning the woodcutter said to his wife, 'Send our
youngest child to-day with my dinner. She is always good and
obedient, and will keep to the right path, and not wander away
like her sisters, idle drones!'

But the mother said, 'Must I lose my dearest child too?'

'Do not fear,' he answered; 'she is too clever and intelligent to
lose her way. I will take plenty of peas with me and strew them