"Then," said he, "what have you in your bag and bottle?"

She answered: "Good things, which you shall not be troubled with."

"Won't you give me some?" said he.

"No, not a bit, nor a drop, unless it would choke you."

The old man frowned, saying: "Evil fortune attend ye!"

Going on, she came to the hedge, through which she espied a gap, and
thought to pass through it; but the hedge closed, and the, thorns ran
into her flesh, so that it was with great difficulty that she got
through. Being now all over blood, she searched for water to wash
herself, and, looking round, she saw the well. She sat down on the
brink of it, and one of the heads came up, saying: "Wash me, comb me,
and lay me down softly," as before, but she banged it with her bottle,
saying, "Take that for your washing." So the second and third heads
came up, and met with no better treatment than the first. Whereupon
the heads consulted among themselves what evils to plague her with for
such usage.

The first said: "Let her be struck with leprosy in her face."

The second: "Let her voice be as harsh as a corn-crake's."

The third said: "Let her have for husband but a poor country cobbler."

Well, she goes on till she came to a town, and it being market-day,
the people looked at her, and, seeing such a mangy face, and hearing