                The Tinder Box
    Early next morning the king and queen accompanied the lady and all the officers of the household, to see where the princess had been.
　　"Here it is," said the king, when they came to the first door with a cross on it.
　　"No, my dear husband, it must be that one," said the queen, pointing to a second door having a cross also.
　　"And here is one, and there is another!" They all exclaimed; for there were crosses on all the doors in every direction.
　　So they felt it would be useless to search any further. But the queen was a very clever woman; she could do a great deal more than merely ride in a carriage. She took her large gold scissors, cut a piece of silk into squares, and made a neat little bag. This bag she filled with buckwheat flour, and tied it round the princess' neck; and then she cut a small hole in the bag, so that the flour might be scattered on the ground as the princess went along. During the night, the dog came again and carried the princess on his back, and ran with her to the soldier, who loved her very much, and wished that he had been a prince, so that he might have her for a wife. The dog did not observe how the flour ran out of the bag all the way from the castle wall to the soldier's house, and even up to the window, where he had climbed with the princess. 
