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 276 Hans, who made the Princess laugh. " U you'll come along, then hang on ! " said Hans, and so she stuck fast to the others too, and for all her scolding and all her tearing and pulling, she had to limp along with them. And when they came past the princess' s window again, she was still there waiting for them, but when she saw that they had got hold of the cook too, with the ladle and porridge-stick, she laughed till the king had to hold her up. So Hans got the princess and half the kingdom, and they had a wedding which was heard of far and wide. >