Now the king felt great joy at this, and commanded that his entire household should eat with him next day, and made a great feast. When they were all assembled together, he said to the huntsman: As you are so clever, you shall sit by me. He replied: Lord King, your majesty must excuse me, I am a poor huntsman. But the king insisted on it, and said: You shall sit by me, until he did it. Whilst he was sitting there, he thought of his dearest mother, and wished that one of the kings principal servants would begin to speak of her, and would ask how it was faring with the queen in the 1 Grimms Fairy Tales

Hardly had he formed the wish than the marshal began, and said: Your majesty, we live joyously here, but how is the queen living in the tower? Is she still alive, or has she died? But the king replied: She let my dear son be torn to pieces by wild beasts; I will not have her named. Then the huntsman arose and said: Gracious lord father she is alive still, and I am her son, and I was not carried away by wild beasts, but by that wretch the old cook, who tore me from her arms when she was asleep, and sprinkled her apron with the blood of a chicken. Thereupon he took the dog with the golden collar, and said: That is the wretch! and caused live coals to be brought, and these the dog was compelled to devour before the sight of all, until flames burst forth from its throat. On this the huntsman asked the king if he would like to see the dog in his true shape, and wished him back into the form of the cook, in the which he stood immediately

, with his white apron, and his knife by his side. When the king saw him he fell into a passion, and ordered him to be cast into the deepest dungeon. Then the huntsman spoke further and said: Father, will you see the maiden who brought me up so tenderly and who was afterwards to murder me, but did not do it, though her own life depended on it? The king replied: Yes, I would like to see her. The son said: Most gracious father, I will show her to you in the form of a beautiful flower, and he thrust his hand into his pocket and brought forth the pink, and placed it on the royal table, and it was so beautiful that the king had never seen one to equal it. Then the son said: Now will I show her to you in her own form,