is disobliging!' said the Princess, and went away. But she had only
gone a few steps when the bells rang out so prettily--

'Where is Augustus dear?
Alas! he's not here, here, here.'

'Listen!' said the Princess. 'Ask him whether he will take ten kisses
from my ladies-in-waiting.'

'No, thank you,' said the Swineherd. 'Ten kisses from the Princess, or
else I keep my pot.'

'That is very tiresome!' said the Princess. 'But you must put yourselves
in front of me, so that no one can see.'

And the ladies-in-waiting placed themselves in front and then spread out
their dresses; so the Swineherd got his ten kisses, and she got the pot.

What happiness that was! The whole night and the whole day the pot was
made to boil; there was not a fire-place in the whole town where they
did not know what was being cooked, whether it was at the chancellor's
or at the shoemaker's.

The ladies-in-waiting danced and clapped their hands.

'We know who is going to have soup and pancakes; we know who is going to
have porridge and sausages--isn't it interesting?'

'Yes, very interesting!' said the first lady-in-waiting.

'But don't say anything about it, for I am the Emperor's daughter.'

'Oh, no, of course we won't!' said everyone.

The Swineherd--that is to say, the Prince (though they did not know
he was anything but a true Swineherd)--let no day pass without making
something, and one day he made a rattle which, when it was turned round,
played all the waltzes, galops, and polkas which had ever been known
since the world began.

'But that is superbe!' said the Princess as she passed by. 'I have never
heard a more beautiful composition. Listen! Go down and ask him what
this instrument costs; but I won't kiss him again.'

'He wants a hundred kisses from the Princess,' said the lady-in-waiting
who had gone down to ask him.

'I believe he is mad!' said the Princess, and then she went on; but she
had only gone a few steps when she stopped.

'One ought to encourage art,' she said. 'I am the Emperor's daughter!
Tell him he shall have, as before, ten kisses; the rest he can take from
my ladies-in-waiting.'

'But we don't at all like being kissed by him,' said the
ladies-in-waiting.

'That's nonsense,' said the Princess; 'and if I can kiss him, you can
too. Besides, remember that I give you board and lodging.'

So the ladies-in-waiting had to go down to him again.

'A hundred kisses from the Princess,' sai