<h3><SPAN name="chap156"></SPAN>156 Odds And Ends</h3>
<p>There was once on a time a maiden who was pretty, but idle and negligent. When
she had to spin she was so out of temper that if there was a little knot in the
flax, she at once pulled out a whole heap of it, and strewed it about on the
ground beside her. Now she had a servant who was industrious, and gathered
together the bits of flax which were thrown away, cleaned them, span them fine,
and had a beautiful gown made out of them for herself. A young man had wooed
the lazy girl, and the wedding was to take place. On the eve of the wedding,
the industrious one was dancing merrily about in her pretty dress, and the
bride said,—</p>
<p>“Ah, how that girl does jump about, dressed in my odds and ends.”</p>
<p>The bridegroom heard that, and asked the bride what she meant by it? Then she
told him that the girl was wearing a dress make of the flax which she had
thrown away. When the bridegroom heard that, and saw how idle she was, and how
industrious the poor girl was, he gave her up and went to the other, and chose
her as his wife.</p>
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