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My dead cousin was here, and a bearded man came and showed me a

great deal of money down below, but no one told me what it was to

shudder.' 'Then,' said the king, 'you have saved the castle, and

shall marry my daughter.' 'That is all very well,' said he, 'but

still I do not know what it is to shudder!'

Then the gold was brought up and the wedding celebrated; but

howsoever much the young king loved his wife, and however happy

he was, he still said always: 'If I could but shudder--if I could

but shudder.' And this at last angered her. Her waiting-maid

said: 'I will find a cure for him; he shall soon learn what it is

to shudder.' She went out to the stream which flowed through the

garden, and had a whole bucketful of gudgeons brought to her. At

night when the young king was sleeping, his wife was to draw the

clothes off him and empty the bucket full of cold water with the

gudgeons in it over him, so that the little fishes would sprawl

about him. Then he woke up and cried: 'Oh, what makes me shudder

so?--what makes me shudder so, dear wife? Ah! now I know what it

is to shudder!'