The King was pleased beyond measure at the sight, but he was still not
satisfied, and he had the miller's daughter brought into a yet bigger
room full of straw, and said:

"You must spin all this away in the night; but if you succeed this time
you shall become my wife."

When the girl was alone, the little man appeared for the third time, and
said: "What'll you give me if I spin the straw for you this third time?"

"I've nothing more to give," answered the girl.

"Then promise me when you are Queen to give me your first child."

Seeing no other way out of it, she promised the manikin, and he set to
work.

When the King came in the morning, and found the gold, he straightway
made her his wife. When a beautiful son was born to her, she did not
think of the little man, till all of a sudden one day he stepped into
her room and said: "Now give me what you promised."

The Queen offered the little man all the riches in her kingdom if he
would only leave her the child.

But the manikin said, "No, a living creature is dearer to me than all
the treasures in the world."

Then the Queen began to cry and sob so bitterly that the little man was
sorry for her, and said, "I'll give you three days, and if in that time