"Bride, bride, there thou goest!
Alas, alas! if thy mother knew it,
Sadly, sadly would she rue it."
Then she drove on the geese, and sat down again in the meadow, and
began to comb out her hair as before, and Conrad ran up to her, and
wanted to take hold of it. The princess repeated the words she had
used the day before, when the wind came and blew away his hat, and off
it flew a great way, over the hills and far away, so that he had to
run after it. When he returned, she had bound up her hair again, and
all was safe. So they watched the geese until it grew dark.
In the evening, after they came home, Conrad went to the old king and
said--
"I won't have that strange girl to help me to keep the geese any
longer."
"Why?" said the king.
"Because instead of doing any good she does nothing but tease me all
day long."