Identifier: householdstories00grim Title: Household stories from the collection of the Bros. Grimm Year: 1922 (1920s) Authors: Grimm, Jacob, 1785-1863 Grimm, Wilhelm, 1786-1859 Crane, Lucy, 1842-1882 Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 Subjects: Fairy tales Publisher: London : Macmillan & Co. Contributing Library: New York Public Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: s whoselives he had saved came swimming, and dived below, and 264 GRIMMS FAIRY TALES. brought up the key from the bottom. The third thing thathad to be done was the most difficult, and that was to chooseout the youngest and loveliest of the three princesses, as theylay sleeping. All bore a perfect resemblance each to theother, and only differed in this, that before they went to sleepeach one had eaten a different sweetmeat,—the eldest a pieceof sugar, the second a little syrup, and the third a spoonful ofhoney. Now the Queen-bee of those bees that Witlinghad protected from the fire came at this moment, and tryingthe lips of all three, settled on those of the one that had eatenhoney, and so it was that the kings son knew which to choose.Then the spell was broken; every one awoke from stony sleep,and took their right form again. And Witling married the youngest and loveliest princess,and became king after her fathers death. But his two brothershad to put up with the two other sisters. Text Appearing After Image: Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.