Synopsis - The Tinderbox

The story begins with a soldier coming home from the war, on his way he meets an old witch, who tells him about some untold riches, all he has to do is climb down a tree.
She then goes on to tell him about three dogs which sit upon large chests in three separate rooms, each of the chests contain coins of different metals, in the first; bronze, second; silver and third; gold. Just before he enters she asks him to retrieve an old tinderbox for her.
He climbs down and sure enough he opens the first door and there is the dog on the first chest containing the bronze coins, he proceeds to fill his pockets. He then goes to the second room and once again, there is the dog, slightly larger this time, sitting on the second chest. He empties his pockets of all the bronze and fills them with silver. 
Finally he moves onto the last room, in which there is a much larger dog sitting on the final chest, he moves it aside as he did with the others and, once again, empties his pockets and re fills them with the more valuable coins.
He retrieves the tinderbox and goes back up the rope. He asks the old witch what the tinderbox is or what it does, she refuses to tell him so he threatens to cut her head off if she doesn't tell him. She doesn't tell him so sure enough, he cuts her head off.
He proceeds into town as a wealthy man, pockets flowing with gold. He turned himself into a gentleman and began hearing stories about a young princess, now this young, rich man obviously wanted to hear more about this beautiful princess.
He ended up spending all his money and needed more, this is when he remembers the tinderbox, he lights it and the dog from the first room appears, he strikes in twice and the second dog turns up, he strikes it three times and the third dog turns up, each dog is carrying a bagful of coins from the chest they were sitting on in their mouth.
He returns to his former wealth, talking to old 'friends' and wearing his fancy clothes.
The soldier wished to see the princess so he called upon the dog to fetch her for him, just so he could see her, he gave her a kiss and she was returned before morning. The princess told her mother and father, the kind and queen, about this 'dream' she had had. That night the queen sat by the princess' bed and sure enough the dog turned up and whisked her away, the queen ran after them and found the house that she had been being taken to, she drew a large chalk X on the door so she could find it the next day. 
The soldier saw this X the next day and proceeded to draw lots of X's all over town on lots of different houses, so when the king and queen accompanied by many officers and guards went looking for the house  sure enough they stumbled across many houses with a large chalk X on the door, so they gave up the search.
The next night the queen attached a small bag of flour to the princess' neck and when she was whisked away there was a long trail of flour leading to the soldiers house. The next morning the soldier was captured and thrown in prison. Whilst in prison the shoemakers boy comes by and the soldier asks him to go and retrieve the tinderbox for the soldier, he returns with the tinderbox for the promise of four shillings.
Later that day when the soldier was to be hung, the king asked if the soldier had any last requests, the soldier asks to have one last cigar, the king does not refuse and allows him to strike the tinderbox three times. The dogs appear and the soldier commands them to kill almost everyone, including the king and queen, after the deed is done he tells the princess that she is to be queen and they have a large celebratory feast.