et greyhounds at you."

They flew and flew. Again the Eagle asked:

"Look again, my lord King; what is above us, and what
below us?"

"Above us is the sky, below us the earth."

"Look and see what is on the right hand and on the left."

"On the right is the open plain, on the left there stands a
house."

"There lives my second sister; we'll go and pay her a visit."

They stopped in a wide courtyard. The second sister received
her brother cordially, and seated him at the oaken table; but the
King was left outside, and she loosed greyhounds, and set them
at him. The Eagle flew into a rage, jumped up from table,
caught up the King, and flew away farther with him. They flew
and flew. Says the Eagle:

"My lord King! look round! what is behind us?"

The King looked back.

"There stands behind us a red house."

"That's my second sister's house burning!" said the Eagle.
"Now we'll fly to where my mother and my eldest sister live."

Well, they flew there. The Eagle's mother and eldest sister
were delighted to see them, and received the King with cordiality
and respect.

"Now, my lord King," said the Eagle, "tarry awhile with
us, and afterwards I will give you a ship, and will repay you for
all I ate in your house, and then--God speed you home again!"

So the Eagle gave the King a ship and two coffers--the one
red, the other green--and said:

"Mind now! don't open the coffers until you get home.
Then open the red coffer in the back court, and the green coffer
in the front court."

The King took the coffers, parted with the Eagle, and sailed
along the blue sea. Presently he came to a certain island, and
there his ship stopped. He landed on the shore, and began
thinking about the coffers, and wondering whatever there could
be in them, and why the Eagle had told him not to open them.
He thought and thought, and at last couldn't hold out any more--he
longed so awfully to know all about it. So he took the red
coffer, set it on the ground, and opened it--and out of it came
such a quantity of different kinds of cattle that there was no
counting them: the island had barely room enough for them.

When the King saw that, he became exceedingly sorrowful,
and began to weep and therewithal to say:

"What is there now left for me to do? how shall I get all
this cattle back into so little a coffer?"

Lo! there came out of the wat