A Riddling Tale

by The Brothers Grimm

　　Three women were changed into flowers which grew in the field, but one ofthem was allowed to be in her own home at night. Then once when day wasdrawing near, and she was forced to go back to her companions in the fieldand become a flower again, she said to her husband, "If thou wilt comethis afternoon and gather me, I shall be set free and henceforth stay withthee." And he did so. Now the question is, how did her husband know her,for the flowers were exactly alike, and without any difference? Answer:as she was at her home during the night and not in the field, no dewfell on her as it did on the others, and by this her husband knew her.