hast taken so much trouble to find me I will tell thee how thou
mayst help thyself. Thy brother has a daughter named Miliza, who is as
fortunate as her father. Take her for thy wife when thou shalt return
to thine own country, and all that thou shalt acquire thereafter, be
careful to say belongs to her."

The traveller thanked Destiny many times and departed.

When he had returned to his own country he went straight to his
brother, and said to him:

"Brother, give me Miliza. Thou seest that without her I am alone in
the world."

And the brother answered: "It pleases me well. Miliza is thine."

Straightway the bridegroom took his brother's daughter to his house,
and he became very rich, but he was always careful to say: "All that I
have belongs to Miliza."

One day he went into the fields to see his wheat, which was so fine
that there was nothing like it in the whole country around. A
traveller passed along the way, and said to him:

"Whose is this wheat?"

And the elder brother, without thinking, answered: "It is mine."

But scarcely had he spoken than a spark was seen in the wheat and in
an instant it was all on fire. Quickly he ran after the traveller, and
cried out:

"Stop, my friend, this wheat is not mine. It belongs to Miliza, my
brother's daughter."

The fire was instantly extinguished, and thenceforth the elder brother
was happy--thanks to Miliza.

_The Queen of the Golden Mines_

Once on a time there was a King of Ireland, and he had three sons,
Teddy, Billy, and Jack. Teddy and Billy were the two eldest, and they
were brave, able boys. But Jack was the youngest, a _gauchy_, _dawnie_
sort of a lad that was good for nothing only feeding fowls and doing
odd turns about the house. When they grew up to be men, Teddy and
Billy one day said they'd go away to travel and see the world, for
they'd only be good-for-nothing omadhauns if they'd stay here all
their lives. Their father said that was good, and so off the both of
them started. And that night when they halted from their travelling,
who does they see coming up after them, but Jack; for it seems he
commenced to think _long_, when he found them gone, and he was that
lonesome that he couldn't stay behind them. And there he was dressed
in his old tattered clothes, a spec-_tacle_ for the world, and a
disgrace to them; for of course, they were done off with the best of
everything--rale gentlemen, as becomed their father's sons. They said
to