Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-31
The Queen Bee.

Two sons of a king went out to see the
world. They fell into wild klnd OF NE
and never came home again so thelr
Youngest brother, who was called DUNN
ling, set out to find them. He found them
at last, but they made fun or MIN LOT
thinking that he, who was so simple couio
get on in the world, when they two, VINO
were so much wiser, could not.
They all three went on together and
came to an ant hill. The two older broth
ers wanted to stir it up so that they might
see the little ants running around IN tnelr
fright and carrying their eggs away, but
Dummling said. Let the little ants alone'
/ will not let you trouble them.
Then they went on and came to lake, on
which a great many ducks were swimming.
The two brothers wanted to eaten pair
and roast them, but Dummling would not
let them He said. Let the ducks alonei
I will not let you kill them.
At last they came to bees nest, In
which there was so much honey that it ran
out and down the trunk of the tree. The
two wanted to make fire under the tree
and smoke the bees, so that they could get
the honey But Dummling again stopped
them and said. Let the bees alone; will
not let you smoke them"
At last the three brothers came to a cas-
tie, where stone horses We're standing In
the stables, but they saw no one. They
until at the end they came to a door with
three locks. In the middle Of the door was
a little hole, through which they could
look into the room. They saw little gray
man sitting at a table. They called to him
once twice, but he did not hear. Then
they called him for the third time, and at
last he got up, unlocked the door and came
out. He said nothing, but led them to a
table loaded with good things. They ate
and drank Then he took each of them to a
sleeping room.
The next morning the little gray man
came to the eldest, nodded to him and led
him to a table of stones, on which were
written three things that must be done to
free the castle.
The first was that in the wood under the
moss lay the pearls of the kings daughter.
There were a thousand of them. These
must be found, and If at sunset even one
was gone he who had looked for them
would be turned into stone.
The eldest went out and looked for them
all day, but when the day was done he had
found only hundred What was written
on the table came to pass, and he was
turned into stone.
The next day the second brother tried it,
but he did but little better than the eldest.
for he found not more than two hundred
pearls, and he was turned into stone.
So at last it was Cummings turn. He
looked in the moss but the pearls were
hard to find and he did not get on very
fast. Then he sat down on stone and be-
gan to cry. And as he sat there the king of
the ants, whose life he had once saved,
came with five thousand ants, and before
long they had found all the pearls and
put them In pile.
The second thing to do was to get the
Key of the sleeping room of the king 8
daughter out of the lake.
When Dummling came to the lake the
ducks whose lives he had once saved swan
up to him, Owed down and brought up. the
key.
But the third thing was the most difficult
From the three sleeping daughters of the
king he must pick out the youngest and
sweetest. They looked just alike and there
was no way to tell them apart but this:
BEFORE they went to sleep each one had