Now when her father heard this he was very angry, because he really loved her more than the others. When he reached his palace he called the false princess, his wife, and gave her her silks and shawls, and scarfs, and gold and silver jewels. Then he called the servant-girl -- the true princess -- and gave her her sun-jewel box. She took it, and was delighted to have it. She made him many salaams and went away with her box, but did not open it then, for she knew what was in it, and that she must open it at night and alone. In October 1940 Chase learned from R. M. Ward of Beech Creek, NC, that Ward had been receiving folk songs, ballads, and tales in the mail from James Taylor Adams of Wise County, VA.

I’ll show you,” says she. And she offed with her cap o’ rushes, and there she was in her beautiful clothes. Then the king said, "What a contemptible comparison! She only loves me as much as the cheapest and commonest thing that comes to table. This is as much as to say, she doesn't love me at all. I always thought it was so. I will never see her again." The servant-girl promised not to pull out the needles. Then she got the bath ready; but when the king's daughter had gone to bathe, she sat down on the bed, and pulled the needles out of the king's eyes. Well, the king thinks and thinks, and then he says, "Yes, yes; wine puts life into a man, therefore it is a good thing." Besides: which is it to be? We have to tend our own gardens, and only write about ourselves or people just like us because we mustn’t pilfer others’ experience, or we have to people our cast like an I’d like to teach the world to sing Coca-Cola advert?

I love food, I love Sark, and I've always wanted to do something for this amazing island I grew up on," Bird tells me. It was whilst watching Samin Nostrat's brilliant Netflix series Salt Fat Acid Heat, that the idea of extracting salt came to him. As soon as she had done so, he opened his eyes, and sat up. He thanked God for bringing him to life again. Then he looked about, and saw the servant-girl, and said to her, "Who has made me well and pulled all the needles out of my body?" We could live without pepper, whereas we couldn't live without salt; it can only grow in certain parts of the world, where salt can be found almost anywhere. And sure enough, when she had upped and offed with her cap and robe of rushes, there he was at the door waiting for her to come; for he had determined to dance with no one else.

The real princess came, and the king said to her, "See, I am going to another country to eat the air. What would you like me to bring for you when I return?"Well, he was that angry. “You don’t love me at all,” says he, “and in my house you stay no more.” So he drove her out there and then, and shut the door in her face. The master’s son was glad when he saw her. He danced with none but her and never took his eyes off her. When she wouldn’t tell him her name, nor where she came from, he gave her a ring and told her if he didn’t see her again he should die. Oh!” says he, “I had a daughter. And I asked her how much she loved me. And she said ‘As much as fresh meat loves salt.’ And I turned her from my door, for I thought she didn’t love me. And now I see she loved me best of all. And she may be dead for aught I know.”