FAIRYTALE MEME:
9 Heroines - [1/9] The Goose Girl
   “As she looked very pretty, and too delicate for a waiting-maid, he went up into the royal chamber to ask the bride who it was she had brought with her, that was thus left standing in the court below. ’I brought her with me for the sake of her company on the road,’ said she; ’pray give the girl some work to do, that she may not be idle.’ The old king could not for some time think of any work for her to do; but at last he said, ’I have a lad who takes care of my geese; she may go and help him.’ ”