ar the other."

"That is nothing at all," said Thumbling; "my father's farm is so large,
that, if a heifer two months old goes in at the gate on one side of it,
when she goes out at the other she takes a calf of her own with her."

"That don't surprise me," continued the princess; "but you haven't got a
bull half as big as ours; a man can sit on each of his horns, and the
two can't touch each other with a twenty-foot pole."

"That is nothing at all," replied Thumbling; "my father's bull is so
large, that a servant sitting on one of his horns can't see the servant
sitting on the other."

"That don't surprise me," said the princess; "but you haven't got half
so much milk at your farm as we have; for we fill, every day, twenty
hogsheads, a hundred feet high; and every week, we make a pile of cheese
as high as the big pyramid of Egypt."

"That is nothing at all," said Thumbling. "In my father's dairy they
make such big cheeses, that once, when my father's mare fell into the
press, we only found her after travelling seven days, and she was so
much injured that her back was broken. So to mend that I made her a
backbone of a pine-tree, that answered splendidly; till one fine morning
the tree took it into its head to grow, and it grew and grew until it
was so high that I climbed up to Heaven on it. There I looked down, and
saw a lady in a white gown spinning sea-foam to make gossamer with. I
went to take hold of it, and snap! the thread broke, and I fell into a
rat-hole. There I saw your father and my mother spinning; and as your
father was clumsy, lo and behold, my mother gave him such a box on the
ear, that it made his old wig shake----"

"_That is too much!_" interrupted the princess. "My father never
suffered such an insult in all his life."

"She said it! she said it!" shouted the giant "Now, master, the princess
is ours!"

VI.

But the princess said, blushing: "Not quite yet. I have three riddles to
give you, Thumbling; guess them, and I will obey my father, and become
your wife without any more objections. Tell me, first, what that is
which is always falling, and is never broken?"

"Oh!" answered Thumbling, "my mother told me that a long time ago; it is
a waterfall."

"That is so," interrupted the giant; "but who would have thought of
that."

"Tell me, next," continued the princess, with a slight trembling in her
voice, "what is that that every day goes the same journey, and yet never
returns on its ste