The Green Fairy Book, by Andrew Lang   (From the German)  There
was once upon a time a poor woman who had one little daughter
called ‘Parsley.’ She was so called because she liked eating
parsley better than any other food, indeed she would hardly eat
anything else. Her poor mother hadn’t enough money always to be
buying parsley for her, but the child was so beautiful that she
could refuse her nothing, and so she went every night to the
garden of an old witch who lived near and stole great branches
of the coveted vegetable, in order to satisfy her daughter.
This remarkable taste of the fair Parsley soon became known, and
the theft was discovered. The witch called the girl’s mother to
her, and proposed that she should let her daughter come and live
with her, and then she could eat as much parsley as she liked.
The mother was quite pleased with this suggestion, and so the
beautiful Parsley took up her abode with the old witch.  One day
three Princes, whom their father had sent abroad to travel, came
to the town