they all exclaimed; forthere were crosses on all the doors in every direction.
  So they felt it would be useless to search any farther. But thequeen was a very clever woman; she could do a great deal more thanmerely ride in a carriage. She took her large gold scissors, cut apiece of silk into squares, and made a neat little bag. This bag shefilled with buckwheat flour, and tied it round the princess's neck;and then she cut a small hole in the bag, so that the flour might bescattered on the ground as the princess went along. During thenight, the dog came again and carried the princess on his back, andran with her to the soldier, who loved her very much, and wishedthat he had been a prince, so that he might have her for a wife. Thedog did not observe how the flour ran out of the bag all the wayfrom the castle wall to the soldier's house, and even up to thewindow, where he had climbed with the princess. Therefore in themorning the king and queen found out where their daughter had been,and the soldier was taken up and put in prison. Oh, how dark anddisagreeable it was as he sat there, and the people said to him,"To-morrow you will be hanged." It was not very pleasant news, andbesides, he had left the tinder-box at the inn. In the morning hecould see through the iron grating of the little window how the peoplewere hastening out of the town to see him hanged; he heard the drumsbeating, and saw the soldiers marching. Every one ran out to look atthem. and a shoemaker's boy, with a leather apron and slippers on,galloped by so fast, that one of his slippers flew off and struckagainst the wall where the soldier sat looking through the irongrating. "Hallo, you shoemaker's boy, you need not be in such ahurry," cried the soldier to him. "There will be nothing to see till Icome; but if you will run to the house where I have been living, andbring me my tinder-box, you shall have four shillings, but you mustput your best foot foremost."
  The shoemaker's boy liked the idea of getting the fourshillings, so he ran very fast and fetched the tinder-box, and gave itto the soldier. And now we shall see what happened. Outside the town alarge gibbet had been erected, round which stood the soldiers andseveral thousands of people. The king and the queen sat on splendidthrones opposite to the judges and the whole council. The soldieralready stood on the ladder; but as they were about to place therope around his neck, he said that an innocent request was oftengranted to a poor criminal before he suffered death. He wished verymuch to smoke a pipe, as it would be the last pipe he should eversmoke in the world. The king could not refuse this request, so thesoldier took his tinder-box, and struck fire, once, twice, thrice,-and there in a moment stood all the dogs;- the one with eyes as big asteacups, the one with eyes as large as mill-wheels, and the third,whose eyes were like towers. "Help me now, that I may not behanged," cried the soldier.
  And the dogs fell upon the judges and all the councillors;seized one by the legs, and another by the nose, and tossed themmany feet high in the air, so that they fell down and were dashed topieces.
  "I will not be touched," said the king. But the largest dog seizedhim, as well as the queen, and threw them after the others. Then thesoldiers and all the people were afraid, and cried, "Good soldier, youshall be our king, and you shall marry the beautiful princess."
  So they placed the soldier in the king's carriage, and the threedogs ran on in front and cried "Hurrah!"