Then the witch cried out in a passion, “What! will you slay my little dog?” and immediately transformed him, so that he lay like a stone, and his bride awaited him in vain and thought, “That which I so greatly dreaded, which lay so heavily on my heart, has come upon him!” But at home the other brother was standing by the gold-lilies, when one of them suddenly drooped.

“Good heavens!” said he, “my brother has met with some great misfortune! I must away to see if I can possibly rescue him.”

Then the father said, “Stay here, if I lose you also, what shall I do?”

But he answered, “I must and will go forth!”