The snake's eyes gleamed and twinkled, and taking the handkerchief
into his fangs, he made off to an old ruin, whither Eva followed.

But when they got to the ruin the snake disappeared, and Eva ran
home to tell her mother.

Next day, Pere Sauvet and some men went to the ruin, where Eva
showed the hole where the snake had disappeared.

Old Pere Sauvet lit a fire, and smoked the snake out, killing it
with a stick as it glided over the stones.

After that they dug out the hole, when they found the handkerchief.
Digging still further along, they came upon a hollow place, at the
bottom of which they found a lot of gold.




THE FISHERMEN OF SHETLAND.

There was a snug little cove in one of the Shetland Islands. At the
head of the cove stood a fishing hamlet, containing some twenty
huts. In these huts lived the fisher-folk, ruled by one man--the
chief--who was the father of two beautiful daughters.

Now these fishermen for some years had been very lucky, for a fairy
queen and her fairies had settled there, and she had given her power
over to a merman, who was the chief of a large family of mermaids.
The fairy queen had made the merman a belt of sea-weed, which he