d for the same price.

Now the goldsmith had a son who said he would like to see this
wonderful bird. So he went home with the boy. He looked the bird over
very carefully and under its wings he discovered an inscription that
no one else had seen. The inscription read:

_Whoever eats my heart will become king._

_Whoever eats my gizzard will find under his head each
morning a heap of golden ducats._

The youth went home and told his father about the strange inscription.
They talked the matter over and at last decided that it would be well
for the young man to marry the poor man's oldest daughter provided he
could get the golden bird as dowry.

The goldsmith went to see the girl's father and after some discussion
the marriage was arranged.

The wedding day arrived. The bridegroom ordered the bird to be
roasted and ready to be put on the table when the bridal party came
home from church. It was his intention to eat the heart himself and
have his bride eat the gizzard.

The children of the family cried bitterly at the thought of losing
their pretty bird, but the bridegroom, of course, had his way.

Now two of the boys stayed home from the wedding and they decided that
they would like very much to taste the roast bird if only they could
find a piece that nobody would miss. They did not dare take a leg or a
wing, but they thought it would be safe to pick out a morsel from the
inside. So one boy ate the heart, the other the gizzard. Then they
were so frightened at what they had done that they ran away and never
came back.

When the bride and groom returned from church, the bird was carried to
the table. The groom looked at once for the heart and the gizzard and
was greatly shocked at their disappearance.

The two boys who had gone out into the world found work with a
merchant. They slept together and every morning the merchant's wife
found a heap of golden ducats under the feather bed. She didn't know
to which boy they belonged. She took them and saved them for a whole
year until they filled a hogshead.

At the end of a year the boys decided to go out again into the world.
The merchant showed them all the ducats his wife had found in their
bed and he said to them:

"Take with you as many as you want now and when you come back you may
have the rest."

The brothers parted company and each set out alone, the one to the
left, the other to the right.

The younger brother came to a tavern. The landlady