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 Then the lazy girl answered, ‘I should soil my fingers,’ and went on.

Soon she came to the Apple-tree, and the apples cried, ‘Shake us down, shake us down! We are all ripe!’

‘A fine business indeed,’ she answered. ‘One of you might fall upon my head.’ And she passed on.

When she came to Mother Hulda’s house, she was not afraid of her big teeth, as she had heard all about them, and she immediately hired herself to the old woman. The first day she made a great effort; she was industrious, and obeyed the orders Mother Hulda gave her, for she thought of all the gold. But on the second day even, she began to be lazy, and on the third she was still more so. She would not get up in