t.

'You will have to let me have your night-gown too,' he said, 'for I
begin to see that the sheet won't be enough.'

Then she gave him her night-gown, but just then it came into his
head that he had forgotten to lock the door, and he was forced to go
downstairs and do it before he could lie down in bed again. So off he
went with the sheet, and the night-gown too.

An hour later the real Governor returned.

'Well, what a time it has taken to lock the house door, father!' said
his wife, 'and what have you done with the sheet and the night-gown?'

'What do you mean?' asked the Governor.

'Oh, I am asking you what you have done with the night-gown and sheet
that you got to wipe the blood off yourself with,' said she.

'Good heavens!' said the Governor, 'has he actually got the better of me
again?'

When day came the Master Thief came too, and wanted to have the
Governor's daughter as had been promised, and the Governor dared do no
otherwise than give her to him, and much money besides, for he feared
that if he did not the Master Thief might steal the very eyes out of his
head, and that he himself would be ill spoken of by all men. The Master
Thief lived well and happily from that time forth, and whether he ever
stole any more or not I cannot tell you, but if he did it was but for
pastime.

(5) From P. C. Asbjornsen.

BROTHER AND SISTER

BROTHER took sister by the hand and said: 'Look here; we haven't had one
single happy hour since our mother died. That stepmother of ours beats
us regularly every day, and if we dare go near her she kicks us away.
We never get anything but hard dry crusts to eat--why, the dog under the
table is better off than we are. She does throw him a good morsel or two
now and then. Oh dear! if our own dear mother only knew all about it!
Come along, and let us go forth into the wide world together.'

So off they started through fields and meadows, over hedges and ditches,
and walked the whole day long, and when it rained sister said:

'Heaven and our hearts are weeping together.'

Towards evening they came to a large forest, and were so tired out with
hunger and their long walk, as well as all their trouble, that they
crept into a hollow tree and soon fell fast asleep.

Next morning, when they woke up, the sun was already high in the heavens
and was shining down bright and warm into the tree. Then said brother:

'I'm so thirsty, sister; if I did but know where to find a little