The king was in seventh heaven when he saw that mountain of gold.

The girl got her foot in the king’s door well enough that the king had a bee in his bonnet.

As they reached the third and biggest mountain of straw the girl had ever seen, he told her that if she did this job one last time, not only will her life be spared, but she gets to marry her son to boot!

I was there again that night to see how she was doing. When she told me the good news that she was going to tie knots with the prince, I wasn’t as ecstatic as she was.