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said. The princess sent her girl again. " Go and tell him that I will 

 do whatever he desires me to do." She went and told him what her 

 mistress had said: "My mistress says that whatever you desire her to 

 do she will do." Then the prince said to the girl, "Go and tell her 

 that I desire her to cut down her right cheek, and I will come and be 

 her guest." Therefore the girl went and told her mistress what the 

 prince had said. So the princess took her knife and cut down her 

 right cheek. She said to her maid, "Go and tell him that I will do 

 whatever he wants me to do." She went and told the prince what 

 her mistress had done. 



Again the beautiful prince said, "Just tell her to cut down her other 

 cheek, and then I will come and see her. " So she went and told her 

 mistress, and thereupon the princess cut her left cheek. Again she 

 sent her maid, who went to him and told him. This time he said, 

 "Let her cut her hair, then I will go to her. " She went and told her, . 

 and the princess took her knife and shaved off her hair, and she sent 

 her hair to him. The maid took it to the prince; but when the prince 

 saw the hair, he refused to accept it. "Don't bring it near me! It 

 is too nasty! Take it back to your mistress and tell her that I don't 

 want to see the ugly scars on her cheeks and her ugly shaved hair. 

 It is too nasty for me. " Then he left, and laughed louder and louder, 

 mocking her; and the girl returned to her mistress very sad. 



She came slowly; and her mistress asked her, "My dear, what 

 tidings do you bring?" Then she told her mistress how scornfully 

 he had spoken of the ugly scars on her cheeks, and of her shaving her 

 hair, and that everybody had been laughing at her, and that every 

 one had heard him mocking her. Then the young princess was very 

 much ashamed. She set out with her maid, and walked along crying. 

 She wanted to hang herself, but her maid talked to her and comforted 

 her all the way. They went on and on, trying to go to the house of 

 Chief Pestilence. Her heart took courage, for she hoped to get there 

 and ask Chief Pestilence to make her beautiful. They went on and on, 

 and passed many mountains and rivers and valleys, and reached the 

 edge of a large plain. There they met a man, who asked them which 

 way they intended to go; and the princess told him that they intended 

 to go to the house of Chief Pestdence. She passed by him, and did 

 not look at him, for she was ashamed to let any one look at her. 



Soon they saw a large house in the distance. They went toward 

 it; and when they reached the door, they went right in and shouted 

 as they stood in the doorway, "We come to the house of Chief Pesti- 

 lence to be made beautiful!" Then all the maimed people on both 

 sides of the house called to them, "Come, come, come!" and those on 

 the other side shouted, "This way, this way, this way!". and the 

 princess went to those who called her to come; and the other one 

 went to those who shouted "This way!" 



