Year: 1861

Once on time there was klns who had a daughter, and she was such dreadful story teller that the like of her was not to be found far or near. So the king gave ont that if any one could tell such string of lies as would get her to say, "That's Story" he should have her to wife, and half the kingdom besides. Well many came, as you may fancy, to try their luck, for every one would have been very glad to have the princess, to say nothing of the kingdom But they all cut sorry figure, for the princess was so given to story telling that all their lies went in at one ear and out of the other Among the rest came three others to try their luck, and the two el- der went first; but they fared no better than those who had gone before them. Last of all the third Boots, set off, and found the princess in the farmyard.

 " Good morning" he said, and thank you for nothing"

 'Good morning." said she, {" and the same to you" Then she went on:

 'Y You havn't such fine farmyard as ours, T1f be bound; for when two shepherds stand one at each end of 1t, and blow their ram s horns, the one cant hear the other!!'

 Haven't we, though 7" answered Boots, " Ours is far bigger; for when a cow begins to go with calf at one end of it, she don get to the other before her time comes"

 :" dare say" said the princess. Well, but you haven't such a big OK, after all, as ours yonder; for when two men sit one on each horn, they can't touch each other with a twenty foot rule.

 Stuff p said Boots, |" is that all? Why, we have an OK who is so big that when two sit on each horn, and each blow his great mountain-r trumpet, they can't hear one another"

 :; dare say,' said the princess; but you haven't so much milk as we I'll be bound for we milk our kline into great pails, and car " them in doors, and empty them into great tubs, and so we make great, great cheeses Y

 co. you do, do you?' said Boots. "Well, we milk ours into great tubs, and then we put them into carts and drive them indoors. and then we turn them out into great brew ing-vats and so we make cheeses as big as houses. We had, too, dun mare to tread the cheeses well together, when it was making but once she tumbled down into the cheese and we lost her; and after we had eaten at this cheese seven years, we came upon great dun mare, alive and kicking. Well, once af- ter that, was going to drive this mare to the mill and her backbone snapped in-two. But 1 wasn't put of, not, for l took spruce sap ling, and put 1t into her for . backbone, and she had no other backbone while we had her But the sapling took root, and grew up intos such tall tree that climbed right up to heaven by it; and when I got there saw the Virgin Mary sitting and spinning the foam of the sea into pigs bristle ropes; but just then the spruce fir broke short off, and 1 couldn't get down again; and so the Virgin Mary let mo down by one of the ropes and down l slipped straight into a fox 5 hole; and who should sit there but my mother and your father cobblin2 shoes; and just as 1 stepped in, my mother gave your father such box on the ear that if make his whskers cnrl

 THot'S Story '' said the princess "my father never did any such thing in all his born days p

 So Boots got the princess to wife, and half the kingdom besides.