The gate was closed and she meant to take out the little bone, but when she undid the kerchief it was empty and she had lost the good star's present.  Now how was she to set to work?  She was deter­mined to rescue her brothers, but had no key to open the glass mountain.  The good little sister took a knife and cut off her own tiny finger, fitted it into the door and succeeded in open­ing it.

 

 

 

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