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Grade 2, Collegiate School, Richmond Virginia

Once upon a time there lived a beautiful girl and her poor father who was a miller. The miller met up with the king and bragged that his daughter could spin straw into gold. Because the king loved gold, he ordered the miller to bring his daughter to the castle.

The king locked the miller’s daughter into a room full of straw and a spinning wheel. The king said she would die if she couldn’t spin the straw into gold by morning. While locked in the room, the miller’s daughter started to weep. She was scared and didn’t have any idea how to spin straw into gold.S

uddenly a little man appeared when the door burst open. The little man uttered, “What will you give me if I spin the straw into gold?” The miller’s daughter said she would give him her necklace. The little man sat at the spinning wheel until morning and spun straw into gold thread.

Because the king was just a greedy man, when he saw all that gold he quickly put the miller’s daughter into a bigger room filled with straw. Once again the funny little man appeared and said, “What will you give me if I spin the straw into gold?” She offered him her ring.

The very next morning when the king entered, he was amazed.

The third time the king asked the miller’s daughter to spin straw into gold he said she could become his very beautiful Queen. The miller’s daughter promised the little man he could have her first child if he would spin the straw into gold.

The king was overwhelmed when he saw all that gold. So he married the miller’s daughter and a year later the Queen had a bouncing baby boy.

The little man suddenly appeared and said,” Give me what you promised!” The Queen cried and cried and offered him treasure instead. He felt sorry for her so he gave her three days to guess his name.

That evening when he came the Queen guessed Xenakis, Beastyribs, and Leg O’Rams.

The faithful servant went into the woods and the mountains until she saw the little man zigzagging while riding on a cooking spoon singing his name. The servant ran back to the castle and told the Queen the little man’s name. When the little man arrived she guessed his name, Rumpelstiltskin, and she lived happily ever after.