again.

Then back came the _Giant_.

Snuff--snuff! "My eyes and limbs, what a smell of Christian blood
there is in here!"

"I know there is," said the _Princess_; "for a little while since
there came a magpie flying with a man's bone in his bill, and let it
fall down the chimney. I made all the haste I could to get it out of
the house again; but after all my pains, I daresay it's that you
smell."

When the _Giant_ heard that, he said no more about it; but a little
while after, he saw how the cupboard was all decked about with flowers
and garlands; so he asked who it was that had done that? Who could it
be but the _Princess_?

"And, pray, what's the meaning of all this tomfoolery?" asked the
_Giant_.

"Oh, I'm so fond of you, I couldn't help doing it when I knew that
your heart lay there," said the _Princess_.

"How can you be so silly as to believe any such thing?" said the
_Giant_.

"Oh yes; how can I help believing it, when you say it?" said the
_Princess_.

"You're a goose," said the _Giant_; "where my heart is, you will never
come."

"Well," said the _Princess_; "but for all that, 'twould be such a
pleasure to know where it really lies."

Then the poor _Giant_ could hold out no longer, but was forced to
say:

[Illustration: "On that island stands a church; in that church is a well;
in that well swims a duck."]

"Far, far away in a lake lies an island; on that island stands a
church; in that church is a well; in that well swims a duck; in that
duck there is an egg, and in that egg there lies my heart,--you
darling!"

In the morning early, while it was still grey dawn, the _Giant_ strode
off to the wood.

[Illustration: He took a long, long farewell of the Princess, and when he
got out of the Giant's door, there stood the Wolf waiting for him.]

"Yes! now I must set off too," said _Boots_; "if I only knew how to
find the way." He took a long, long farewell of the _Princess_, and
when he got out of the _Giant's_ door, there stood the _Wolf_ waiting
for him. So _Boots_ told him all that had happened inside the house,
and said now he wished to ride to the well in the church, if he only
knew the way. So the _Wolf_ bade him jump on his back, he'd soon find
the way; and away they went, till the wind whistled after them, over
hedge and field, over hill and dale. After they had travelled many,
many days, they came at last to the lake. Then the _Prince_ did not
know how to get over it, but the _Wolf_