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'Well,' said the old witch, 'we have got the bird's heart, but

not the wishing-cloak yet, and that we must also get.' 'Let us

leave him that,' said the young lady; 'he has already lost his

wealth.' Then the witch was very angry, and said, 'Such a cloak

is a very rare and wonderful thing, and I must and will have it.'

So she did as the old woman told her, and set herself at the

window, and looked about the country and seemed very sorrowful;

then the huntsman said, 'What makes you so sad?' 'Alas! dear

sir,' said she, 'yonder lies the granite rock where all the

costly diamonds grow, and I want so much to go there, that

whenever I think of it I cannot help being sorrowful, for who can

reach it? only the birds and the flies--man cannot.' 'If that's

all your grief,' said the huntsman, 'I'll take you there with all

my heart'; so he drew her under his cloak, and the moment he

wished to be on the granite mountain they were both there.