" "Then," said the King,
"thou hast delivered the castle, and shalt marry my daughter." "That is
all very well," said he, "but still I do not know what it is to shudder."
Then the gold was brought up and the wedding celebrated; but howsoever
much the young king loved his wife, and however happy he was, he still
said always "If I could but shudder---if I could but shudder." And at
last she was angry at this. Her waiting-maid said, "I will find a cure
for him; he shall soon learn what it is to shudder." She went out to
the stream which flowed through the garden, and had a whole bucketful
of gudgeons brought to her. At night when the young king was sleeping,
his wife was to draw the clothes off him and empty the bucketful of
cold water with the gudgeons in it over him, so that the little fishes
would sprawl about him. When this was done, he woke up and cried "Oh,
what makes me shudder so?---what makes me shudder so, dear wife? Ah! now
I know what it is to shudder!"
5 The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids
There was once upon a time an old goat who had seven little kids, and
loved them with all the love of a mother for her children.
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