Year: 1868

luSOdhAA3 pdIOk Ci4Sy nave LcO llI2ud-
ful dream. l thought there was castle
in distant country with all the inhabit-
ants turned into stone, and myself among
the rest. [ suppose [ must have
gripped you hard in my fright" ''Your
dream is true enough" said he, ''and
there is little chance Of the enchantment
being removed. The lover of the Prin-
cess should come to the waterfall in the
wood (the castle is thousands of miles
away and watch till he'd see dwarf
come out from under it into the river
Then he should strike this dwarf with
one Of my feathers in the face, and he
would become great giant, and return
with the lover to the enchanted castle.
The lover would then touch the Princess
with my feather, and all regain life. A
likely thing all this to happen I'm
sleepy. Yaw, yaw ! don't disturb me
again"


When she heard him snoring again,
she pulled another feather out Of his tall,
and he gave a great jump. "Wite,
said he, "you do not mean to give me any
sleep the whole night, and [ SO disap-
! pOIuLcu VI Iudn uGoA tuot 1loo dpOuC
somewhere What is disturbing you
now ?" "Oh, dear husband. I had a
frightful dream. 4 Prince planted a
vine in his garden, and it was thriving
well, when a frightful looking thing came
into the vineyard, and married away the
old vine from which the man had taken
the slip to plant the other. So the
Prince became sick, aud the vine sunk
into the earth so that no one could see it
What does it mean ?" ooh, it means
that some one took away this Princes
wife, and their child was transformed ia
to young vine, which has since wither-
ed" ''Is there no N cans to restore the
Prince and his son ?" ''Oh, yes. IF
anyone gets the speckled cock in the fowl
house, and brings him to the spot over
where the vine is sunk, and puts feath
er out of my tail IN his bill, then he will
scratch away the earth till he has thrown
out three toads. Thase must be burned
and the ashes scattered On the roots of
the vine, which will then spring up and
bloom. When it is touched with one of
my feathers, it will become the young
Prince, the son Of the sick one, and he
will regain his health when he is touched
with the same feather" The woman, on
hearing these words, ground her teetl,
and nearly drove her finger nails into her
palms, for these were the husband and
son from whom the Ogre had carried her
away. "Now, wife," said the Ogre, "if
you awake me again I'll give you good
beating, Yaw, yaw."


But lie was no sooner snoring than she
gave the fercest pull Of all, and he roared
and jumped out Of bed, and slapped her
severely. "What's this for?" said he.
cam | never to be allowed to rest again ?"
ooh, dear husband" said she, sit was all
for grief Of parting with you. I dreamed
that strange man was taking me away
from you, and that was going with my
own free will, and that ship which
sailed on land as we'll as water was bearing
us off, I suppose [ must have gripped
you very hard with the fright" "Gripped
me, indeed I thought the whole tail
was pulled of NE, But forgive you On ac-
count of your loyalty to me. There is such
sship, which sails as we'll on land as on sea:
but no one can get it without being provi-
ded with one of my feathers, You set the
feather on the ground with the quill end
forward, and away it sweeps until it meets
the ship. You then stick it at the top Of
the mast, and merely manage the rudder,
and away it goes in whatever direction
you please. Good night, good wife ; but
be sure you won't waken me again 2"


"No, dear husband" and he fell asleep
once more.


When he was fast asleep she arose qui-
city and walked out, the lover following
her. They came to the waterfall, saw the
dwarf, struck him in the face with the
first feather, and he became a giant ready
to obey their orders. They laid another
feather ON the ground, and on it went,
the giant pacing swiftly after it, with the
woman on one shoulder and the man on
the other, They had not gone far when
they heard a terrible roar behind them,
and there was the Ogre tearing after
them, with hundreds of armed men, sprung
from the ground at his word.


Fast and far went the giant, but the
crowd was pressing on him, when the
Ogre's wife turned round, shook feather
at them, and they all sunk to their knees
in the earth. The Ogre had lost much of
his power with the three feathers. He
stopped to raise the men from their pits,
but was not able Then he raised troop
of tigers, bears, toads, frogs and dragons !;
but before these could come up to the
giant, he had reached the ship. Into it
he sprung, and fixed The feather at the
mast top. The man took the rudder, the