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2 the journey. Now the princess's horse was called Falada, and could speak.

When the time came for them to set out, the old queen went into her bed-chamber, and took a little knife, and cut off a lock of her hair, and gave it to her daughter, and said, "Take care of it, dear child; for it is a charm that may be of use to you on the road." Then they took a sorrowful leave of each other, and the princess put the lock of her mother's hair into her besom, got upon her horse, and set off on her journey to her bridegroom's kingdom. One day, as they were riding along by, the side of a brook, the princess began to feel very thirsty, and said to her maid, "Pray get down and fetch me same water in my golden cup out of yonder brook; for I want to drink." "Nay," said the maid, "if you are thirsty, get down yourself, and lie down by the water and drink; I shall not be your waiting-maid any longer." Then she was so thirsty that she got down, and knelt, over the little brook, and drank, for she was frightened, and dared not bring out her golden cup; and then she wept, and said, Alas! what