小傻瓜又一次提出要娶公主为妻，谁知国王一听又火冒三丈：一个人人取笑的傻小子竟然想做我的女婿，真是痴心妄想!于是，国王提出了更加苛刻的条件：小傻瓜必须把这样一个人带到王宫来……他能吃完像山那么大的一堆面包。
小傻瓜再次来到森林中他砍倒那棵老树的地方。
只见那里坐着一个汉子，腰带把身子束得紧紧的，一副愁眉苦脸的样子。"我吃了整整一炉黑面包，"他对小傻瓜说，"可我饿得太厉害啦，吃这点儿东西又能顶什么事儿呢?我的肚子还是空空如也，你瞧，要想不饿死，我就只好像这样勒紧裤带啦。"
小傻瓜一听欣喜若狂，便说："起来!我带你到一个地方去，到了那儿，你可以放开肚皮吃，吃得饱饱的。"
小傻瓜把他领到了王宫。那里堆放的面包，看上去就像一座大山，是用全国运送来的面粉烤制的。
从森林来的这个人开始吃起来，吃得津津有味，不到一天时间，那么大一堆面包就无影无踪了。
小傻瓜第三次提出要娶公主为妻，可国王却再次推三阻四。
这一次，国王提出要小傻瓜弄来一艘在海上和在陆地上都能行驶的船。"开着这样一艘船来见我，"他说，"你就可以娶我的女儿为妻。"
小傻瓜马上动身又去了森林，找到了那位白发苍苍的小老头儿。小老头儿对他说："我替你喝了那么多的酒，替你吃了那么多的面包，现在还要心甘情愿地送给你一艘水陆两用船，我之所以为你做这一切，因为你曾经对我很友善。"
于是，小老头儿将一艘水陆两用船送给了小傻瓜。国王见了这艘船，不好再阻止小傻瓜的请求。
小傻瓜与公主举行了婚礼。国王去世后，小傻瓜继承了王位，把王国治理得繁荣富强。 金鹅英文版：
The golden goose
There was a man who had three sons, the youngest of whom was called the Simpleton, and was despised, laughed at, and neglected, on every occasion. It happened one day that the eldest son wished to go into the forest to cut wood, and before he went his mother gave him a delicious pancake and a flask of wine, that he might not suffer from hunger or thirst. When he came into the forest a little old grey man met him, who wished him good day, and said, "Give me a bit of cake out of your pocket, and let me have a drink of your wine; I am so hungry and thirsty." But the prudent youth answered, "Give you my cake and my wine? I haven't got any; be off with you." And leaving the little man standing there, he went off. Then he began to fell a tree, but he had not been at it long before he made a wrong stroke, and the hatchet hit him in the arm, so that he was obliged to go home and get it bound up. That was what came of the little grey man.