- Shepherd finds a golden mortar and wants to give to the king
- Daughter says that the king will want a pestle, which shepherd doesn't have
- Shepherd gives mortar to king and he gives shepherd 3 days to give pestle
- Shepherd laments, telling king about his daughter's words
- King says he will marry the shepherd's daughter and not ask for the pestle if she comes to him:
- Neither walking nor riding
- Neither clothed nor unclothed
- Neither by day nor by night/at noon nor in the morning
- Daughter goes to king at the fall of dusk (not noon or morning), dressed in fishnets (neither clothed nor unclothed), partly rode on the goat and partly walked
- King married her but told her that she must part with him if she gives advice to anybody
- One day a farmer's mare had a foal at the market and the foal ran away to another farmer
- King decided that since every animal runs to its mother, that the gelding had the foal instead
- Queen told farmer in secret to take a fishing net and fish the road in front of the king
- When the king asked why the farmer was doing it, queen told the farmer to respond "It's as hopeful as expecting a gelding to foal"
- Farmer does so, but king realizes that someone else told him to do so
- Interrogated farmer until he gave up the queen's name
- King told the queen she must leave the next day, but could take the thing she like best with her
- Queen puts opium in king's wine, tells him to drink to her health, and then takes king back to her father's old hut
- When king wakes, queen tells him that she took him as the thing she liked best
- King relented and told her she could give advice to anybody
Bibliography: A Clever Lass from The Key of Gold by Josef Baudis. Web Source.
Image: Gold Mortar by valdist torms. Web Source.
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