18. TREMBLE AND THE MILLER’S DAUGHTER
#Inspirational Moral Stories
A miller used to
boast that his daughter could weave straw into gold! Hearing
of this, the king
told the miller to send his daughter to him. ‘If she can do
what you say, I’ll
marry her’ said the king, ‘or she will die.’ The unfortunate
maiden was thrown
into a room full of straw and told to spin it into gold
before dawn! A gnome
came to her rescue. In exchange for her necklace, he
turned the straw
into gold. Next, the delighted king sent a bigger quantity of
straw! The gnome
again helped her in exchange for her ring. But, on the third
and last night, the
maiden had nothing left, so he made her promise that she
would give her
first-born child to him! The king married the miller’s
daughter, but when
their first baby arrived, the gnome came. The queen
offered him all her
valuables, but the gnome only wanted the baby! Finally,
he said she could
keep her baby if she discovered his name in three days. The
despairing queen
followed the gnome to his home, where he sang: ‘Today it’s
wine; tomorrow it
will be bread; on the third day Tremble, it’ll be a prince
instead!’ On the
fourth day, when he met the queen, she said: ‘Tremble the
gnome, leave us
alone!’ Tremble rushed out and never returned.
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