Out upon her for a kitchen-maid!“ They took away her pretty dresses, and put on her an old grey kirtle, and gave her wooden shoes to wear. „Is the stupid creature to sit in the same room with us?“ said they. And then began very evil times for the poor step-daughter. The new wife brought two daughters home with her, and they were beautiful and fair in appearance, but at heart were, black and ugly. When the winter came the snow covered the grave with a white covering, and when the sun came in the early spring and melted it away, the man took to himself another wife. The maiden went every day to her mother’s grave and wept, and was always pious and good.
There was once a rich man whose wife lay sick, and when she felt her end drawing near she called to her only daughter to come near her bed, and said, „Dear child, be pious and good, and God will always take care of you, and I will look down upon you from heaven, and will be with you.“ And then she closed her eyes and expired.
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