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When the time came for them to set out, the fairy went into her

bed-chamber, and took a little knife, and cut off a lock of her

hair, and gave it to the princess, and said, 'Take care of it,

dear child; for it is a charm that may be of use to you on the

road.' Then they all took a sorrowful leave of the princess; and

she put the lock of hair into her bosom, got upon her horse, and

set off on her journey to her bridegroom's kingdom.