and put
it into the _Wolf's_ jaw, and laid the saddle on his back; and now the
_Wolf_ was so strong, after what he had got inside, that he set off
with the _Prince_ like nothing. So fast he had never ridden before.

"When we have gone a bit farther," said _Graylegs_, "I'll show you the
_Giant's_ house."

So after a while they came to it.

"See, here is the _Giant's_ house," said the _Wolf_; "and see, here
are your six brothers, whom the _Giant_ has turned into stone; and
see, here are their six brides, and away yonder is the door, and in
that door you must go."

"Nay, but I daren't go in," said the _Prince_; "he'll take my life."

"No! no!" said the _Wolf_; "when you get in you'll find a _Princess_,
and she'll tell you what to do to make an end of the _Giant_. Only
mind and do as she bids you."

Well! _Boots_ went in, but, truth to say, he was very much afraid.
When he came in the _Giant_ was away, but in one of the rooms sat the
_Princess_, just as the _Wolf_ had said, and so lovely a princess
_Boots_ had never yet set eyes on.

"Oh! heaven help you! whence have you come?" said the _Princess_, as
she saw him; "it will surely be your death. No one can make an end of
the _Giant_ who lives here, for he has no heart in his body."

"Well! well!" said _Boots_; "but now that I am here, I may as well try
what I can do with him; and I will see if I can't free my brothers,
who are standing turned to stone out of doors; and you, too, I will
try to save, that I will."

"Well, if you must, you must," said the _Princess_; "and so let us see
if we can't hit on a plan. Just creep under the bed yonder, and mind
and listen to what he and I talk about. But, pray, do lie as still as
a mouse."

So he crept under the bed, and he had scarce got well underneath it,
before the _Giant_ came.

"Ha!" roared the _Giant_, "what a smell of Christian blood there is in
the house!"

"Yes, I know there is," said the _Princess_, "for there came a magpie
flying with a man's bone, and let it fall down the chimney. I made all
the haste I could to get it out, but all one can do, the smell doesn't
go off so soon."

So the _Giant_ said no more about it, and when night came, they went
to bed. After they had lain a while, the _Princess_ said:

"There is one thing I'd be so glad to ask you about, if I only
dared."

"What thing is that?" asked the _Giant_.

"Only where it is you keep your heart, since you don't carry it about
you," said the