e-mason,
who was an excellent master in his business. His name was Kraft, and he
gladly received his son's companion as apprentice, George having spent
his last groschen that very day, and thus the little prince was turned
into a stone-mason's apprentice.

In the castle of the Greylocks, meanwhile, there was sorrow and
lamentation. The boy who had ventured onto the lake with George,
managed to save his life and returned home the following morning, and
to repeated questionings he had only the one answer to make--that he had
seen the prince drown before his very eyes. With this information the
Court had to content itself; but not the duchess, for a king will give
up his throne sooner than a mother the hope of seeing her child again.
She possessed indeed one means by which she could know beyond doubt
whether her darling were alive or dead, namely the magic mirror which
the fairy had given to the first Wendelin, and in which, ever since, the
Greylocks had been able to see what they held most dear. In this glass
she had seen her husband fall from his horse and die. Once again she
took it out of the ivory casket in which it was kept; but so long as
George sat imprisoned in the cave of the evil spirit, nothing was to
be seen on its smooth surface. That was ominous, yet she ceased not to
hope, and thought: "If he were dead, I should see his corpse." She sat
the whole night staring in the mirror. In the morning a messenger from
the army of the Greylocks arrived, bringing word that the enemy was
pressing upon them and that a battle would have to be fought before the
fresh troops, which Moustache, the field-marshal, had asked for, could
arrive.

The issue was doubtful, and the duchess would better have everything
ready for her flight and that of the princes, and, in case of the worst,
to carry with her the crown jewels, the royal seal and a store of gold.

The chancellor ordered all of these things to be packed in chests and
warned the servants not to forget to add his dressing-gown. Then he
begged the noble widow to look into the glass and to let him know as
soon as there was any reflection of the battle.

Presently she saw the two armies fall upon each other, but her longing
to see her son overcame her immediately, and behold, there in the glass
he appeared, seated by the side of an old ragged shepherd and eating
bread and cheese, his clothes were soaked and there was no possibility
of his changing them. This worried her and