inister followed hastily, and tracked him all
through the town to the cottage of the good old man; then he ran back
to the King and told him that he had found out where all his dinners
and suppers went. The King, who was very much astonished, said he should
like to go and see for himself. So he set out, accompanied by the Prime
Minister and a guard of archers, and arrived just in time to find the
old man and the Princess finishing his dinner.

The King ordered that they should be seized and bound with ropes, and
Frisk also.

When they were brought back to the palace some one told the King, who
said:

'To-day is the last day of the respite granted to those impostors; they
shall have their heads cut off at the same time as these stealers of
my dinner.' Then the old man went down on his knees before the King and
begged for time to tell him everything. While he spoke the King for the
first time looked attentively at the Princess, because he was sorry to
see how she cried, and when he heard the old man saying that her name
was Rosette, and that she had been treacherously thrown into the sea, he
turned head over heels three times without stopping, in spite of being
quite weak from hunger, and ran to embrace her, and untied the ropes
which bound her with his own hands, declaring that he loved her with all
his heart.

Messengers were sent to bring the Princes out of prison, and they came
very sadly, believing that they were to be executed at once: the nurse
and her daughter and the boatman were brought also. As soon as they
came in Rosette ran to embrace her brothers, while the traitors threw
themselves down before her and begged for mercy. The King and the
Princess were so happy that they freely forgave them, and as for the
good old man he was splendidly rewarded, and spent the rest of his days
in the palace. The King of the Peacocks made ample amends to the
King and Prince for the way in which they had been treated, and did
everything in his power to show how sorry he was.

The nurse restored to Rosette all her dresses and jewels, and the bushel
of gold pieces; the wedding was held at once, and they all lived happily
ever after--even to Frisk, who enjoyed the greatest luxury, and never
had anything worse than the wing of a partridge for dinner all the rest
of his life.(7)

(7) Madame d'Aulnoy.

THE ENCHANTED PIG

ONCE upon a time there lived a King who had three daughters. Now it
happened that he had to go out to