, he
said to the Draken: 'Stop here, in the meantime, for I must go on in
front and tie up my children, lest they eat you.'

So he went and tied his children with strong ropes, and said to them:
'As soon as the Draken comes in sight, call out as loud as you can,
"Drakenflesh! Drakenflesh!"'

So, when the Draken appeared, the children cried out: 'Drakenflesh!
Drakenflesh!' and this so terrified the Draken that he let the bag fall
and fled.

On the road he met a fox, which asked him why he seemed so frightened.
He answered that he was afraid of the children of Herr Lazarus, who had
been within a hair-breadth of eating him up. But the fox laughed, and
said: 'What! you were afraid of the children of Herr Lazarus? He had
two fowls, one of which I ate yesterday, the other I will go and fetch
now--if you do not believe me, come and see for yourself; but you must
first tie yourself on to my tail.'

The Draken then tied himself on to the fox's tail, and went back thus
with it to Lazarus's house, in order to see what it would arrange. There
stood Lazarus with his gun raised ready to fire, who, when he saw the
fox coming along with the Draken, called out to the fox: 'Did I not tell
you to bring me all the Draken, and you bring me only one?'

When the Draken heard that he made off to the rightabout at once, and
ran so fast that the fox was dashed in pieces against the stones.

When Lazarus had got quit of the Draken he built himself, with their
gold, a magnificent house, in which he spent the rest of his days in
great enjoyment.

The Story of the Queen of the Flowery Isles

There once lived a queen who ruled over the Flowery Isles, whose
husband, to her extreme grief, died a few years after their marriage. On
being left a widow she devoted herself almost entirely to the education
of the two charming princesses, her only children. The elder of them was
so lovely that as she grew up her mother greatly feared she would excite
the jealousy of the Queen of all the Isles, who prided herself on being
the most beautiful woman in the world, and insisted on all rivals bowing
before her charms.

In order the better to gratify her vanity she had urged the king, her
husband, to make war on all the surrounding islands, and as his
greatest wish was to please her, the only conditions he imposed on any
newly-conquered country was that each princess of every royal house
should attend his court as soon as she was fifteen years old,