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It was wounded and had a silver arrow in it; and the fox said to him, “If you pull out the arrow and give me some comfrey for my wound, you will be helped in a difficult situation!” The prince did so, and the fox gave him another pipe. With these three pipes, the prince went to the old woman at the border of the country. He told her that he wanted to be her servant. “You can do that,” she said, “but my service is very hard; no one has ever been able to do it. And with that, she took him out into the field. There were ninety-nine people hanging there. The old woman said, “These are all those who have been hired by me as servants, but none of them can do the work. So if you feel like it and don't succeed, you can be the hundredth!” But he hired himself out to her for a year, but in that region, a year is only three days. On the first day, the old woman cooked him a dream soup, and then she sent him away with three horses. 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Er befreite sie, und die Ameise gab ihm dafür ein Pfeifchen und sagte ihm, wenn er einmal in Not wäre und damit pfeifen würde, so wird ihm Hilfe werden. Er steckte es zu sich und ging weiter. Da fand er bald einen Fuchs. Der war verwundet und hatte einen silbernen Pfeil in sich; und der Fuchs sagte zu ihm: Wenn du mir den Pfeil herausziehen wirst und mir für meine Wunde etwas Pfahlkraut gibst, so soll dir in einer schwierigen Lage geholfen werden! - Der Königssohn tat es, und der Fuchs gab ihm auch wieder eine Pfeife. Mit diesen drei Pfeifchen begab sich der Königssohn nun zu der alten Frau an der Grenze des Landes. Er sagte ihr, er wolle sich bei ihr als Knecht anstellen lassen. Das kannst du wohl, meinte sie, aber der Dienst ist bei mit recht schwer; es hat ihn bis jetzt noch keiner bestanden. - Und damit nahm sie ihn hinaus auf das Feld. Da hingen neunundneunzig Menschen. 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