es_ 108

_'The Giant will trouble you no more,' said Geirald_ 119

_Every Time a Bear was killed his Shadow returned to
the House of the Great Bear Chief_ 135

_How the Boys were half turned into Bears_ 138

_'Why do you give to the Ogre your Child, so fair,
so fair?'_ 146

_'Bring to me Dilah, Dilah the Rejected One'_ 151

_All the Animals try to get the Rock off Wolverine's
Legs_ 155

_The Elf Maiden's House_ 195

_The King falls in Love with the Sister of the Sun_ 225

_The Pool in the Sand_ 243

_The Elves and the Bear_ 247

_Kisa the Cat carries off Ingibjoerg's Feet from the
Giant's Cave_ 260

_The Princess steals the King's Letter_ 311

THE BROWN FAIRY BOOK

_WHAT THE ROSE DID TO THE CYPRESS_[1]

Once upon a time a great king of the East, named Saman-lal-posh,[2] had
three brave and clever sons--Tahmasp, Qamas, and Almas-ruh-bakhsh.[3]
One day, when the king was sitting in his hall of audience, his eldest
son, Prince Tahmasp, came before him, and after greeting his father with
due respect, said: 'O my royal father! I am tired of the town; if you
will give me leave, I will take my servants to-morrow and will go into
the country and hunt on the hill-skirts; and when I have taken some game
I will come back, at evening-prayer time.' His father consented, and
sent with him some of his own trusted servants, and also hawks, and
falcons, hunting dogs, cheetahs and leopards.

At the place where the prince intended to hunt he saw a most beautiful
deer. He ordered that it should not be killed, but trapped or captured
with a noose. The deer looked about for a place where he might escape
from the ring of the beaters, and spied one unwatched close to the
prince himself. It bounded high and leaped right over his head, got
out of the ring, and tore like the eastern wind into the waste. The
prince put spurs to his horse and pursued it; and was soon lost to the
sight of his followers. Until the world-lighting sun stood above his
head in the zenith he did not take his eyes off the deer; suddenly it
disapp