me again to the King's
palace, and Dapplegrim ran loose by his side. When he got there, the
King was standing outside in the courtyard.

'Can you tell me which is the horse I have caught, and which is the one
I had before?' said the youth. 'If you can't, I think your daughter is
mine.'

The King went and looked at both the dappled horses; he looked high and
he looked low, he looked before and he looked behind, but there was not
a hair's difference between the two.

'No,' said the King; 'that I cannot tell thee, and as thou hast procured
such a splendid bridal horse for my daughter thou shalt have her; but
first we must have one more trial, just to see if thou art fated to
have her. She shall hide herself twice, and then thou shalt hide thyself
twice. If thou canst find her each time that she hides herself, and if
she cannot find thee in thy hiding-places, then it is fated, and thou
shalt have the Princess.'

'That, too, was not in our bargain,' said the youth. 'But we will make
this trial since it must be so.'

So the King's daughter was to hide herself first.

Then she changed herself into a duck, and lay swimming in a lake that
was just outside the palace. But the youth went down into the stable and
asked Dapplegrim what she had done with herself.

'Oh, all that you have to do is to take your gun, and go down to the
water and aim at the duck which is swimming about there, and she will
soon discover herself,' said Dapplegrim.

The youth snatched up his gun and ran to the lake. 'I will just have a
shot at that duck,' said he, and began to aim at it.

'Oh, no, dear friend, don't shoot! It is I,' said the Princess. So he
had found her once.

The second time the Princess changed herself into a loaf, and laid
herself on the table among four other loaves; and she was so like the
other loaves that no one could see any difference between them.

But the youth again went down to the stable to Dapplegrim, and told
him that the Princess had hidden herself again, and that he had not the
least idea what had become of her.

'Oh, just take a very large bread-knife, sharpen it, and pretend that
you are going to cut straight through the third of the four loaves which
are lying on the kitchen table in the King's palace--count them from
right to left--and you will soon find her,' said Dapplegrim.

So the youth went up to the kitchen, and began to sharpen the largest
bread-knife that he could find; then he caught hold of th