"So he thought how he might be rid of her; and at last he said he would take her to wife all the same, if she could come to him--
'Not driving, And not riding; Not walking, And not carried; Not fasting, And not full-fed; Not naked, And not clad; Not in the daylight, And not by night.'
"For all that he fancied she could never do.
"So she took three barleycorns and swallowed them, and then she was not fasting, and yet not full-fed; and next she threw a net over her, and so she was
Next she got a ram and sat on him, so that her feet touched the ground; and so she waddled along, and was
'Not driving, And not riding; Not walking, And not carried.'
And all this happened in the twilight, betwixt night and day.
"So when she came to the guard at the palace, she begged that she might have leave to speak with the prince; but they wouldn't open the gate, she looked such a figure of fun.
"But for all that the noise woke up the prince, and he went to the window to see what it was.
"So she waddled up to the window, and twisted off one of the ram's horns, and took it and rapped with it against the window.
"And so they had to let her in, and have her for their princess."
"Once on a time there was a man who had an only son, but he lived in need and wretchedness, and when he lay on his death-bed, he told his son he had nothing in the world but a sword, a bit of coarse linen, and a few crusts of bread--that was all he had to leave him. Well! when the man was dead, the lad made up his mind to go out into the world to try his luck; so he girded the sword about him, and took the crusts and laid them in the bit of linen for his travelling fare; for you must know they lived far away up on a hillside in the wood, far from folk. Now the way he went took him over a fell, and when he had got up so high that he could look over the country, he set his eyes on a lion, a falcon, and an ant, who stood there quarrelling over a dead horse. The lad was sore afraid when he saw the lion, but he called out to him and said he must come and settle the strife between them and share the horse, so that each should get what he ought to have.
"So the lad took his sword and shared the horse, as well as he could. To the lion he gave the carcass and the greater portion; the falcon got some of the entrails and other titbits; and the ant got the head. When he had done, he said,--