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what was going on inside. He saw the old hag
strip naked, and then peel off her fake hide. And
underneath that wrinkly old skin, he saw, was a
beautiful girl. He didn’t think twice about it: he
kicked down the door and ran up to the girl to
hold her in his arms. Surprised by the prince’s
entrance and embarrassed by her nakedness, the
girl ran off to a corner of the room, covering
herself up with what she could.
The King’s son thus said:
- Well then, who on Earth are you? Why were you
all done up like that?
With downcast eyes, the girl told him her whole
story, of how her father, who was also a King, had
banished her from her home and cursed here.
The King’s son, excited by all that novelty, rushed
to summon his parents, and told them:
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