e third loaf
on the left-hand side, and put the knife to it as if he meant to cut it
straight in two. 'I will have a bit of this bread for myself,' said he.

'No, dear friend, don't cut, it is I!' said the Princess again; so he
had found her the second time.

And now it was his turn to go and hide himself; but Dapplegrim had given
him such good instructions that it was not easy to find him. First he
turned himself into a horse-fly, and hid himself in Dapplegrim's left
nostril. The Princess went poking about and searching everywhere, high
and low, and wanted to go into Dapplegrim's stall too, but he began to
bite and kick about so that she was afraid to go there, and could not
find the youth. 'Well,' said she, 'as I am unable to find you, you must
show yourself; 'whereupon the youth immediately appeared standing there
on the stable floor.

Dapplegrim told him what he was to do the second time, and he turned
himself into a lump of earth, and stuck himself between the hoof and the
shoe on Dapplegrim's left fore foot. Once more the King's daughter went
and sought everywhere, inside and outside, until at last she came into
the stable, and wanted to go into the stall beside Dapplegrim. So this
time he allowed her to go into it, and she peered about high and low,
but she could not look under his hoofs, for he stood much too firmly on
his legs for that, and she could not find the youth.

'Well, you will just have to show where you are yourself, for I can't
find you,' said the Princess, and in an instant the youth was standing
by her side on the floor of the stable.

'Now you are mine!' said he to the Princess.

'Now you can see that it is fated that she should be mine,' he said to
the King.

'Yes, fated it is,' said the King. 'So what must be, must.'

Then everything was made ready for the wedding with great splendour and
promptitude, and the youth rode to church on Dapplegrim, and the King's
daughter on the other horse. So everyone must see that they could not be
long on their way thither.(20)

(20) From J. Moe.

THE ENCHANTED CANARY

I

ONCE upon a time, in the reign of King Cambrinus, there lived at
Avesnes one of his lords, who was the finest man--by which I mean the
fattest--in the whole country of Flanders. He ate four meals a day,
slept twelve hours out of the twenty-four, and the only thing he ever
did was to shoot at small birds with his bow and arrow.

Still, with all his practice he shot very b