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Princess looked at her and answered straight away: ‘Let me sleep a night in the chamber where the bridegroom sleeps.’ The Queen agreed to this; but she bribed the Prince’s page to mix a powerful sleeping-draught with his master’s wine. When it was night, and the Prince was already asleep, the Princess was led to the chamber. As soon as she ss’as alone with him she seated herself on the bed and spoke to him: ‘My Prince, I have followed after you for seven years. I have asked of the Sun and of the Moon and of the Night Wind how to find you, and they have helped me against the dragon. Surely, my Prince, you will not quite forget me?’ But the Prince slept on, thinking that he heard only she wind whistling outside in the fir-trees. Sothat when the first light of day stole in, the Princess was led away and forced to give up her shining dress. All day she sat weeping in the meadow; but when evening drew near she remembered the egg which the Moon had given her. So she broke this, and out came a clucking hen with twelve chicks all of gold, and they ran about the meadow until the Witch Queen looking our of her window saw them and felt that there was nothing so beautiful in all the world. ‘What will you sell the golden hen and her thickens for?’ she asked. ‘Not for money, not for land,’ answered the Princess, ‘but for flesh and blood.’ So the Queen put the sleeping-draught in the Prince’s tup once more, and later that night led the Princess to the chamber door and lee her in. When she was alone with him the Printess seated herself on the bed and spoke to him: ‘My Prince, I have followed after you for sevenyears. I have asked of the Sun and of the Moon and of the Night Wind how to find you, and they have helped me against the dragon. Surely, my Prince, you will not quite forget me?’ Then the Prince sat up, for he had questioned the page about the strange murmuring of the wind in the fir-trees; the page had told all, and the magit drink had been left untaseed. ‘Now I am free at last!’ tried the Prince as soon as he sawhis Princess. ‘The enthantment has ended which took away my memory, and you have saved me, my own beloved.’ Then they stole away secretly from the castle, hand in hand, and the Night Wind led them to the shore of the Red Sea where the Griffin was waiting. But morning had dawned by the rime they were seated on its back, and the Queen Witch found that they had gone. Shrieking curses, she leapt upon her own Griffin and set out after them. Over the sea they went, and the Queen drew nearer and nearer. But when evening tame, the Princess rememberedthe nut and let it fall into the sea. At once a nut-tree grew up through the water, and there was just room for their Griffin to perth on it and rest through the night. But the other Griffin had nowhere to rest, and feeling the Queen Witch grow heavy on his back, he shook her off into the sea-—and that was the end ofher. Next day the Prince and Princess flew on over the sea in safety till they came to the Castle ofLions. And there they lived happily ever afterwards near the great tree on top of which the singing, soaring lark sang to them for ever. r.)) ) ‘.1’ ~Vi)‘IL I 11~ 3 ~
~Cbe ~tIjrec~rea~ure~ THERE was once a poor tailor who had three sons who seemed to him so worthless and idle and untrustworthy that at last hetumed them out of the house to seek their fortunes as best they might. Now it chanced that their fortunes turned our better than they deserved—though to begin with eath of them had to work hard with no prospects. The eldest decided to betome a joiner, and he worked so well when he was an apprentice that on the day when he see out to gain experience by pracrising his trafr up and down the country, his master made him a present of a little folding table made of common wood. ‘Things are not what they seem,’ said the master carpenter when giving it. ‘For this is a Magic Table. You have bus to set is out and say: ‘Little table, spread thyself’, and the good little table will at once cover itself with a clean cloth, with plate, knife and fork, and on it dishes with boiled meats and roast meats as many as there is room for, and to trown all a glass of red wine such as makes glad the heart.’ The young man thanked the master earpenter and said: ‘With this table I have enough for my whole lifel’ 138 After this he set out on his travels, and he never lacked for food and drink even in the wild wood or the desert places of she earth. At last he said so himself: ‘I will go home now. Perhaps my father will welcome me back when he sees my Magic Table.’ Off he set, and came as length to an inn but one day’s journey from his father’s home. The inn was filled with guests, but they invited him to join them at table, for otherwise, they said, he would find no more food in the house. ‘No,’ answered the joiner, ‘I will not take these few bites out of your mouths rather you must be my guests.’ They laughed, thinking he was joking. But they did not laughwhen he set the Magic Table in the middle of the room and said ‘Little table, spread thyself,’ and it was instantly covered with food and wine. And they were even less inclined to laugh when they found that however much they are,the empty plates kept changing themselves for full ones. ‘I tould easily find a use for that table!’ thought
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