The Royal Cook furiously went back to the royal kitchen. “We will all have to
hide in the kitchen and as soon as that bird comes here, we will have to catch
the bird and wring its neck!”
The Royal Cook tried to whisper to the people around him because Tubby
himself had come to the kitchen to look into the matters.
The Royal Cook started cooking and naturally after the beautiful aroma of
cooking rose up from the kitchen, the bird came into the kitchen.
The others from the kitchen shut all the doors and the windows of the kitchen
as soon as the bird came inside.
Then the Royal Cook and the others chased after the bird and eventually
caught the bird.
The people in the kitchen were about to wring the neck of the bird when
Tubby saw the bird.
“What a lovely bird!” Tubby said, smiling at it.
“This is the bird because of which the dinner was burnt.” The Royal
Cook cried.
However Tubby heard none of it and he took the bird in his hands.
Tubby stroked the bird’s head and with that the pin in the bird’s head came out.
Before them stood the beautiful Princess Zizi.
All the people in the court agreed that Princess Zizi was
indeed the most beautiful woman they had ever seen and soon
Desire was betrothed to her.
Titty was about to be punished for her deeds but Princess Zizi
obtained a pardon for her.
Titty was sent back to the house where she had lived till then where
she could not hurt anyone.
Desire and Princess Zizi married each other and lived very
happily after that.
Adapted from Andrew Lang's Red Fairy Book
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