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Updated: June 25, 2025
'What, you do that! said the Attorney, 'while I lie here; that can never be; lie still, while I go and do it. So up he jumped, like a pea on a drum-head, and ran out into the porch. 'Tell me', said the Mastermaid, 'when you have hold of the door- latch. 'I've got hold of it now', said the Attorney.
Then the Giant thought again it was the Mastermaid, so he turned over on his other side, and fell asleep again; and when he had gone on sleeping for many hours, he began to stir and stretch his old bones, and to call out, 'Isn't it done yet? 'Done to a turn', said the third drop of blood.
Still, in 'the Mastermaid', No. xi, the witch of a sister-in-law, who had rolled the apple over to the Prince, and so charmed him, was torn to pieces between twenty-four horses. The old queen in 'The Lassie and her Godmother', No. xxvii, tries to persuade her son to have the young queen burnt alive for a wicked witch, who was dumb, and had eaten her own babes.
Next day the Attorney passed by the place where the Mastermaid lived, and he too saw how it shone and glistened in the copse; so he turned aside to find out who owned the hut; and when he came in and saw the lovely maiden, he fell more in love with her than the Constable, and began to woo her in hot haste.
So at even he came back with a great fat sack of money I think it was a whole bushel sack and set it down on the bench; and the long and the short of the matter was, that he was to have her, and they went to bed. But all at once the Mastermaid had forgotten to shut the door of the porch, and she must get up and make it fast for the night.
The old hag did not like this either, and showed her teeth, and was cross; but the Mastermaid did not mind her. She took her chest of gold, and threw a handful or so into the fire, and lo! the gold melted, and bubbled and boiled over out of the grate, and spread itself over the whole hut, till it was gilded both outside and in.
So the Mastermaid said she would have him, since he was so rich; but they were scarce in bed before she said she must get up again: 'For I have forgotten to make up the fire. 'Pray, don't stir out of bed', said the Constable; 'I'll see to it. So he jumped out of bed, and stood on the hearth in a trice. 'As soon as you have got hold of the shovel, just tell me', said the Mastermaid.
Well, the Mastermaid asked him, as she had asked the Constable, if he had a good lot of money? and the Attorney said he wasn't so badly off; and as a proof he went home to fetch his money.
So it was soon settled that he was to have the Mastermaid, but they had scarce gone to bed before the Mastermaid said she had forgotten to bring home the calf from the meadow, so she must get up and drive him into the stall. Then the Sheriff swore by all the powers that should never be, and, stout and fat as he was, up he jumped as nimbly as a kitten.
So he called on his stream-sucker, and he came and stooped down, and took one, two, three gulps; and then the water fell so much in the sea, that the Giant could see the Mastermaid and the Prince sailing in their ship. 'Now, you must cast out the lump of salt', said the Mastermaid.
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