Then the bridegroom went to the second, and said, “How do you come by your falling lip?”

“By licking,” she answered, “by licking.”

Then he asked the third, “How do you come by your broad thumb?”

“By twisting the thread,” she answered, “by twisting the thread.”

On this the King’s son was alarmed and said, “Neither now nor ever shall my beautiful bride touch a spinning-wheel.” And thus she got rid of the hateful flax-spinning.