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 Rh the Roan Bull took her on his back again, and over the mountains with her .... and demanded his princess. After they had heard the hen-wife's daughter's story, they took the daughter of the swineherd, and charged her, if the Roan Bull gave her an ivory wand, she was to say she would guide her milk-white steeds with it; and so should she save the life of her dear little princess. But she thought as much of her own life, it seems, as she did of the princess's, or perhaps she was so frightened she could not speak anything but the truth; for when the Roan Bull gave her the wand, and glared at her with his awful eyes, she .... whispered she would drive her father's pigs with it. So back she went, like the first one .... and this time the Bull fairly raved for his princess. They had an awful night of it in the palace, for the princess had " got her mad up".... She took the Bull by the horns, as it were, and off she went....; and when the wand was given to her, she said, without the least hesitation, that it would be very convenient to beat the maid with who did her hair, when she pulled the tangles in it. So the Roan Bull knew he had got the right one at last.

In this story, also, there is no explanation of the word "Orange". The hero was the "Bull of Orange", but the wherefore remains enveloped in darkness.

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