ound quite fast, and yet there was not a
breath of wind, nor was a leaf moving. The man said, 'I don't know
what is turning those windmills; there is not the slightest breeze
blowing.' So he walked on with his servants, and when they had gone
two miles they saw a man sitting on a tree, holding one of his
nostrils and blowing out of the other.

'Fellow, what are you puffing at up there?' asked the man.

He replied, 'Two miles from this place are standing seven windmills;
see, I am blowing to drive them round.'

'Oh, go with me,' said the man; 'if we four are together we shall
easily travel through the wide world.'

So the blower got down and went with him, and after a time they saw a
man who was standing on one leg, and had unstrapped the other and laid
it near him. Then said the master, 'You have made yourself very
comfortable to rest!'

'I am a runner,' answered he; 'and so that I shall not go too quickly,
I have unstrapped one leg; when I run with two legs, I go faster than
a bird flies.'

'Oh, go with me; if we five are together, we shall easily travel
through the wide world.' So he went with him, and, not long
afterwards, they met a man who wore a little hat, but he had it
slouched over one ear.

'Manners, manners!' said the master to him; 'don't hang your hat over
one ear; you look like a madman!'

'I dare not,' said the other, 'for if I were to put my hat on
straight, there would come such a frost that the very birds in the sky
would freeze and fall dead on the earth.'

'Oh, go with me,' said the master; 'if we six are together, we shall
easily travel through the wide world.'

Now the Six came to a town in which the King had proclaimed that
whoever should run with his daughter in a race, and win, should become
her husband; but if he lost, he must lose his head. This was reported
to the man who declared he would compete, 'but,' he said, 'I shall let
my servant run for me.'

The King replied, 'Then both your heads must be staked, and your head
and his must be guaranteed for the winner.'

When this was agreed upon and settled, the man strapped on the
runner's other leg, saying to him, 'Now be nimble, and see that we
win!' It was arranged that whoever should first bring water out of a
stream a long way off, should be the victor. Then the runner got a
pitcher, and the King's daughter another, and they began to run at the
same time; but in a moment, when the King's daughter was only just a
little way of