rs, "Yes." She throws down
a pocket handkerchief and bids him to walk over it without stumbling. He
goes to walk over it, and no sooner did he put his foot on it, than he
fell down and broke his leg. He was taken off immediately and made a
prisoner of by her own guards. The other was called upon, and was asked
the same questions, and I had to go through the same performance, and he
also was made a prisoner of. Now she says, "Have you not another son?"
when the King began so to shiver and shake and knock his two knees
together that he could scarcely stand upon his legs, and did not know
what to say to her, he was so much frightened. At last a thought came to
him to send for his headsman, and inquire of him particularly, Did he
behead his son, or was he alive?

"He is saved, O King."

"Then bring him here immediately, or else I shall be done for."

Two of the fastest horses they had were put in the carriage, to go and
look for the poor Prince; and when they got to the very spot where they
left him, it was the time when the Prince was up the tree, getting his
watch down, and poor Jubal standing a distance off. They cried out to
him, Had he seen another young man in this wood? Jubal, seeing such a
nice carriage, thought something, and did not like to say No, and said
Yes, and pointed up the tree; and they told him to come down
immediately, as there was a young lady in search of him.

"Ha! ha! ha! Jubal, did you ever hear such a thing in all your life, my
brother?"

"Do you call him your brother?"

"Well, he has been better to me than my brothers."

"Well, for his kindness he shall accompany you to the palace, and see
how things turn out."

After they go to the palace, the Prince has a good wash, and appears
before the Princess, when she asks him, Had he ever been at the Castle
of Melvales? With a smile upon his face, he gives a graceful bow. And
says my Lady, "Walk over that handkerchief without stumbling." He walks
over it many times, and dances upon it, and nothing happened to him. She
said, with a proud and smiling air, "That is the young man;" and out
come the objects exchanged by both of them. Presently she orders a very
large box to be brought in and to be opened, and out come some of the
most costly uniforms that were ever worn on an emperor's back; and when
he dressed himself up, the King could scarcely look upon him from the
dazzling of the gold and diamonds on his coat. He orders his two
brothers to be i