The queen realized that the kindness she had shown to the mouse had been rewarded.
After that, the queen gave whatever was left to the little mouse
The mouse danced merrily.
The next day when the man who brought the food for the queen and the princess brought the three peas, the mouse came and ate up the peas immediately.
The queen was enraged when she saw this, but delicious food suddenly appeared on the plate where the three peas had been brought for the queen.
The queen and the princess had a hearty meal.
Now as the queen sat at the spinning wheel, she wondered how she could help her daughter escape the clutches of the wicked king and the dwarf.
At that time, the queen saw the mouse playing with some straw in the corner of the prison.
The queen began to plait all the straws to make it into a basket.
Throughout the entire time, the mouse danced for the queen and the queen gave the three peas and a piece of the black bread that she got, to the mouse and in return she found delicious food for her and Delia. Though the queen did not know how the food appeared, she accepted it as such.
The queen spent all her free time on making the straw basket.
The queen wanted to place the princess in the basket and let her escape from the prison to any good passerby who outside the prison.
After finishing the basket, the queen looked down from the window to decide how much cord she would have to make to lower the basket to the ground from the tower prison.
That was when the queen saw an old woman leaning on a stick looking up at her from outside the prison.
Adapted from the Fairy Tales written by Countess d’Aulnoy
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