The Three Heads in the Well by Susan Gates

Author:Susan Gates
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781448119653
Publisher: RHCP

So everyone was happy at the Princess’s good fortune. Except, of course, for the step-mother and her sour-faced daughter. They didn’t dance one single step at the wedding. They didn’t let one single sugared almond or sip of sweet wine pass their lips. Their mouths looked as if they’d been sucking on lemons. Their jealousy and spite carried on swelling and swelling inside them. Until they almost burst at the seams with envy! Especially as the Princess was now the highest Queen in the land and vastly more important and wealthy than either of them.

Finally the daughter said to her mother, ‘Mother, I have made up my mind! Put out my finest clothes. Pack me up some delicious food, such as fine white bread and sugar plums and lots of other sweetmeats. Oh, and don’t forget a large bottle of your best Malaga Sack as I am bound to get thirsty on my journey.’

‘What journey are you talking about, daughter?’ enquired the mother.

‘I have made up my mind to follow the same road as my step-sister,’ declared the daughter. ‘I am going to seek my fortune. And I know I shall find it for I’m sure I deserve it more than she!’

In her richest clothes and almost bent double under the weight of all her provisions, the sister set out on her journey.

Soon, puffing and panting, she reached the cave where the old man sat on a rock.

‘Young woman,’ he said, ‘you carry a heavy burden. What do you have in that large bag you’re carrying?’

‘Mind your own business!’ replied the sister, nastily. ‘I have good food in here but it’s nothing for you to be troubled with.’

‘From the look of that bag you have more than enough for one. You have enough for a whole army! I am very old; I barely eat more than a sparrow. So won’t you spare me a bite of food or a drop of drink?’

‘Not unless it chokes you!’ replied the sister, rudely. ‘Not a drop or a bite or even a sniff of this good food will you get from me, old man!’

The old man’s face grew grim. He frowned. ‘Then evil fortune attend you!’ he said, as she went on her way.

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