gold-hemmed handkerchief.

'That is enough,' said the princess; 'now we needn't ask any more
questions. Send for my father the king at once.'

'Please let me go,' said Niels; 'I did you as much good as harm, at
any rate.'

'Why, who said anything about doing harm?' said the princess.
'You must stay here till my father comes.'

The way in which the princess smiled when she said this gave Niels
some hope that things might not be bad for him after all, and he was
yet more encouraged when he thought of the words engraver on the
horn, though the last line still seemed too good to be true.
However, the arrival of the king soon settled the matter: the
princess was willing and so was Niels, and in a few days the
wedding bells were ringing. Niels was made an earl by that time,
and looked as handsome as any of them when dressed in all his
robes. Before long the old king died, and Niels reigned after him;
but whether his father and mother stayed with him, or went back to
the moor in Jutland, or were sent to Rome in a carriage and four, is
something that all the historians of his reign have forgotten to
mention.



Shepherd Paul

Once upon a time a shepherd was taking his flock out to pasture,