see her children's children.

THE ENVIOUS SISTERS.

The Esthonian version of this story (the last in Galland's original
translation of the _Thousand and One Nights_, and also found in Germany
and elsewhere), is peculiarly fantastic as "The Prince who rescued his
Brothers" (Kreutzwald). A young king was very ill, and the soothsayers
and magicians could not cure him. One of the magicians, however, at
length finding that the king's hands and arms were gold-coloured to the
elbows, his legs silver-coloured to the knees, and his belly of the
colour of blue glass, told him that he would only be cured by marrying a
young bride similarly coloured. Such a bride was discovered in the
daughter of one of the king's generals, and she was made queen. The
queen was confined of six boys at once; but her elder sister was jealous
of her, and availed herself of the services of an old witch, who carried
the children away by night, and handed them over to the Old Boy,
replacing them with puppies. The queen was confined a second and a third
time, each time of three princes, who suffered the same fate, but the
nurse contrived to hide one of the last three princes. Nevertheless, the
king was now so enraged that he ordered the mother and child to be
thrown into the sea on an iron bed for a boat. But it floated away with
them; and when the prince was seven weeks old, he had grown to be a
young man, and he began to talk to his mother. Soon afterwards they
reached an island, when the prince kicked the bed to pieces, and they
went ashore. The prince met an old man, who gave him a hatchet which
would build houses, and a wand which would change ants into men;
whereupon the prince built and populated a city. The prince then changed
himself into a flea, and went to his father's palace. The king had
married the wicked sister-in-law, and she was trying to persuade him not
to visit the island where the queen and prince had settled, but to visit
another country, where he would see more wonderful things. He went; but
his son had already removed the wonders to his own island, and he
returned disappointed. As the king was still bent on visiting the
island, the new queen advised him instead to visit a country where he
would see eleven men, coloured like himself. When the prince told his
mother what he had heard, she knew that they were her sons. Then the
queen prepared three cakes, one poisoned, and the others mixed with milk
from her breast. The prin