But if there be any fault in her, the mirror will grow dim.

Go now, and do my bidding." You can imagine, of course, what happened next.

Returning to his kingdom, the young king had brought before him many beautiful girls, the daughters of the noblest and highest in all the cities of the land.

But in no case did the mirror remain perfectly clear when the ghostly test was applied.
For three years in vain the king sought; then in despair he for the first time turned his attention to the common people.

And there came before him on the very first day a rude man of the desert, who said, "I know of just such a girl as you want." Then he went forth and presently returned with a simple girl from the desert, who had been brought up in the care of her father only, and had lived with no other companion than the members of her own family and the camels and horses of the encampment.