Then the duck took the shape of the Queen and went to the child, and gave him to drink, smoothed his little bed, covered him up again, and then, in the likeness of a duck, swam back down the gutter. In this way she came two nights, and on the third she said to the kitchen-boy, "Go and tell the King to brandish his sword three times over me on the threshold!" Then the kitchen-boy ran and told the King, and he came with his sword and brandished it three times over the duck, and at the third time his wife stood before him living, and hearty, and sound, as she had been before.

The King was greatly rejoiced, but he hid the Queen in a chamber until the Sunday came when the child was to be baptized. And after the baptism he said, "What does that person deserve who drags another out of; bed and throws him in the water?"

And the old woman answered, "No better than to be put into a cask with iron nails in it, and to be rolled in it down the hill into the water." Then said the King, "You have spoken your own sentence;"and he ordered a cask to be fetched, and the old woman and her daughter were put into it, and the top hammered down, and the cask was rolled down the hill into the river.

鸭子变成了王后的模样，上去给孩子喂奶，摇着他的小床，给他盖好被子，然后又变成鸭子，从下水道游走了。 她这样一连来了两个晚上，第三天晚上，她对小帮工说："你去告诉国王，让他带上他的宝剑，站在门槛上，在我的头上挥舞三下。"小帮工赶紧跑去告诉国王，国王提着宝剑来了，在那幽灵的头顶上挥舞了三下。 他刚舞到第三下，她的妻子就站在了他的面前，像以前一样健康强壮。国王高兴极了，可他仍然把王后藏进密室，等着礼拜天婴儿受洗的日子到来。洗礼结束之后，他说："要是有人把别人从床上拖下来，并且扔进河里，这个人该受到什么样的惩罚？"老婆子说："对这样坏心肠的人，最好的惩罚是把他装进里面插满了钉子的木桶，从山坡上滚到河里去。""那么，"国王说，"你已经为自己做出了判决。"国王命令搬来一只这样的木桶，把老婆子和她的女儿装进去，并且把桶盖钉死，把桶从山坡上滚了下去，一直滚到河心。