He looked down at her foot and saw that blood was spurting from her shoe and staining her white stocking all red. He turned his horse around and took the false bride home again. “This isn’t the right girl, either,” he said. “Haven’t you got another daughter?” “No,” said the man, “there’s only a puny little kitchen drudge that my dead wife left me. She couldn’t possibly be the bride.” “Send her up,” said the king’s son, but the mother said: “Oh no, she’s much too dirty to be seen.” But he insisted and they had to call her. First she washed her face and hands, and when they were clean, she went upstairs and curtseyed to the king’s son. He handed her the golden slipper and sat down on a footstool, took her foot out of her heavy wooden shoe, and put it into the slipper. It fitted perfectly. And when she stood up and the king’s son looked into her face, he recognized the beautiful girl he had danced with and cried out: “This is my true bride!” The stepmother and the two sisters went pale with fear and rage. But he lifted Ashputtle up on his horse and rode away with her. As they passed the hazel tree, the two white doves called out: “Roocoo, roocoo, No blood in the shoe. Her foot is neither long nor wide, This one is the proper bride. ”