ard the soldiers moving about near the bedroom. So he pretended to
fall asleep and called out in his sleep: "I have killed a dozen at a
blow; I have slain two giants; I have caught a wild boar by his
bristles, and captured a unicorn alive. Show me the man that I need
fear."

And when the soldiers heard that they said to the Princess that the
job was too much for them, and went away.

And the Princess thought better of it, and was proud of her little
hero, and they lived happily ever afterwards.

[Illustration: The Earl of Cattenborough will be Pleased to Partake of
a Potato]

THE EARL OF CATTENBOROUGH

Once upon a time there was a miller who had three sons, Charles, Sam,
and John. And every night when the servant went to bed he used to call
out:

"Good-night, Missus; good-night, Master; Good-night, Charles, Sam,
John."

Now after a time the miller's wife died, and, soon after, the miller,
leaving only the mill, the donkey, and the cat. And Charles, as the
eldest, took the mill, and Sam took the donkey and went off with it,
and John was left with only the cat.

Now how do you think the cat used to help John to live? She used to
take a bag with a string around the top and place it with some cheese
in the bushes, and when a hare or a partridge would come and try to
get the piece of cheese--snap! Miss Puss would draw the string and
there was the hare or partridge for Master Jack to eat. One day two
hares happened to rush into the bag at the same time. So the cat,
after giving one to Jack, took the other and went with it to the
King's palace. And when she came outside the palace gate she cried
out, "Miaou."

The sentry at the gate came to see what was the matter. Miss Puss gave
him the hare with a bow and said: "Give this to the King with the
compliments of the Earl of Cattenborough."

The King liked jugged hare very much and was glad to get such a fine
present.

Shortly after this Miss Puss found a gold coin rolling in the dirt.
And she went up to the palace and asked the sentry if he would lend
her a corn measure.

The sentry asked who wanted it. And Puss said: "My Master, the Earl of
Cattenborough."

So the sentry gave her the corn measure. And a little while afterwards
she took it back with the gold coin, which she had found, fixed in a
crack in the corn measure.

So the King was told that the Earl of Cattenborough measured his gold
in a corn measure. When the King heard this he told the sent