late one evening he found himself in a big forest , without any idea as to where he might spend the night . and as he was looking around , his glance happened to fall on an old hut , peeping out from among the bushes . of course an old hut was no lodging for such a fine gentleman ; but when we can not have what we want , we must take what we can get , and since there was no help for it , he went into the hut . there was not even a cat in it , not even a stool to sit on . but against one wall there was a great chest . what might there be in the chest ? suppose there were a few moldy crusts of bread in it ? they would taste good to him , for he had not been given a single thing all day long , and he was so hungry that his inwards stuck to his ribs . he opened the chest . but within the chest was another chest , and in that chest still another chest , and so it went , one always smaller than the other , until they were nothing but little boxes . and the more there were of them the more trouble he took to open them ; for whatever was hidden away so carefully must be something exceptionally beautiful , thought he .
an old hut .
what did the duke see peeping out from among the pushes ?
what did the duke see peeping out from among the pushes ?