When he was above ground, he at once went to the King's palace, just as the wedding of one princess was about to be celebrated, and he went to the room where the King and his three daughters were.
When the princesses saw him they fainted.
Hereupon the King was angry, and ordered him to be put in prison at once, because he thought he must have done some injury to the children.
When the princesses came to themselves, however, they entreated the King to set him free again.
The King asked why, and they said that they were not allowed to tell that, but their father said that they were to tell it to the stove.
And he went out, listened at the door, and heard everything.
Then he caused the two brothers to be hanged on the gallows, and to the third he gave his youngest daughter, and on that occasion I wore a pair of glass shoes, and I struck them against a stone, and they said, "Klink," and were broken.