Now he was rich.
He put the dog back on the chest, shut the door, and then called up through the
tree:
"Now pull me up again, old witch!"
"Have you got the tinder-box too?" she
asked.
"Botheration!" said the soldier,
"I had forgotten it!" 
And then he went back and fetched it.
The witch pulled him up, and there he stood again
on the high road, with pockets, knapsack, cap and boots filled with gold.
"What do you want to do with the
tinder-box?" asked the soldier.
"That doesn't matter to you," replied
the witch. "You have got your money, give me my tinder-box."
"We will see!" said the soldier.
"Tell me at once what you want to do with it or I will draw my sword, and
cut off your head!"
"No!" screamed the witch.
The soldier at once cut off her head and tied up
all his gold in her apron,
slung it like a bundle over his shoulder, put the
tinder-box in his pocket, and set out towards the town.
It was a splendid town, now that he had so much money, he was taken for a noble lord.
People told him about all the grand
doings of the town and the king, and what a beautiful princess his daughter was.
"How can one get to see her?" asked the
soldier.
"She cannot be seen, for she lives in a
great copper castle,
surrounded by many walls and towers!
No one except the king
may go in or out,
for it is prophesied that she will marry a common soldier,
and
the king cannot accept that."
"I should very much like to see her," thought the soldier; but he could not get permission.
Now he lived gaily for a while and gave the poor
a great deal of money.
He was rich, wore fine clothes, and everyone around said
he was a real nobleman.
The soldier liked that. But one day he had nothing left
but two shillings.
Then he had to leave the beautiful rooms he had been living
in
and go into a little attic under the roof.
None came to visit him any longer. Maybe there were too many stairs to climb.
One dark evening he could not even buy a light.
But all at once it flashed across him, that there was a little end of tinder in
the tinder-box
that he had taken from the hollow tree that the witch had helped
him down into.
He found the box with the tinder in it; but just as he had struck
a spark out of the tinder-box,
the door burst open, and the dog with eyes as
large as saucers stood before him and said:
"What does my lord
command?"
"What?" exclaimed the soldier. "I
want more money!".
Soon the dog came back again with a great purse full of
money in his mouth.
The soldier also found out that if he rubbed
once, the dog that sat on the chest of copper appeared;
if he rubbed twice,
there came the dog that watched over the silver chest;
and if he rubbed three
times, the one that guarded the gold appeared.
Now the soldier got into his former, beautiful
rooms and splendid clothes again.
Everyone spoke with him again.