ts blew, and away
they rode--such a sight as was never seen in that town before, when they
had come out into the streets. The young men with the basins scattered
the gold money to the people, and a great crowd ran scrambling after,
and shouted and cheered.

So Jacob Stuck rode up to the king's palace, and the king himself came
out to meet him with the princess hanging on his arm.

As for the princess, she knew him the moment she laid eyes on him. She
came down the steps, and set the lock of hair against his head, where
she had trimmed it off the night before, and it fitted and matched
exactly. "This is the young man," said she, "and I will marry him, and
none other."

But the prime-minister whispered and whispered in the king's ear: "I
tell you this young man is nobody at all," said he, "but just some
fellow who has had a little bit of good luck."

"Pooh!" said the king, "stuff and nonsense! Just look at all the gold
and jewels and horses and men. What will you do," said he to Jacob
Stuck, "if I let you marry the princess?"

"I will," said Jacob Stuck, "build for her the finest palace that ever
was seen in all this world."

"Very well," said the king, "yonder are those sand hills over there. You
shall remove them and build your palace there. When it is finished you
shall marry the princess." For if he does that, thought the king to
himself, it is something better than mere good luck.

"It shall," said Jacob Stuck, "be done by tomorrow morning."

Well, all that day Jacob Stuck feasted and made merry at the king's
palace, and the king wondered when he was going to begin to build his
palace. But Jacob Stuck said nothing at all; he just feasted and drank
and made merry. When night had come, however, it was all different. Away
he went by himself, and blew his breath upon his piece of blue glass,
and rubbed it with his thumb. Instantly there stood the Genie before
him. "What wouldst thou have?" said he.

"I would like," said Jacob Stuck, "to have the sand hills over yonder
carried away, and a palace built there of white marble and gold and
silver, such as the world never saw before. And let there be gardens
planted there with flowering plants and trees, and let there be
fountains and marble walks. And let there be servants and attendants
in the palace of all sorts and kinds--men and women. And let there be
a splendid feast spread for to-morrow morning, for then I am going to
marry the princess."

"To hear is to o