looking old witch in the road. Her under-lip hung quite down on her breast, and she stopped and said, “Good - Hans Christian Andersen

"flew out and bit him in the neck. "Let him alone," said the mother, "he is not doing any harm." "Yes, but he

Our princess moaned and wept. Her tears fell on the elder-stump, and it was quite moved, for it was the Marsh King himself, who lives in the quagmire. I saw the stump turn itself, so it wasn’t only a trunk, for it put out long, muddy boughs like arms. Then the unhappy girl was frightened, ans sprang aside into the quivering marsh, which will not bear me, much less her. In at once she sank, and down with her went the elder-stump - it was he who pulled her down. Then a few big black bubbles, and no trace of her left. She is engulfed in the marsh, and will never return to Egypt with her flower…

Yes, it always pays when the wife believes and admits that her husband is the wisest man in the world and that whatever he does is right.