The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12 · page 21 2101‘Then if you do not want us to avenge our dead flocks and our murdered wives, you will have to throw us into the river just over the place of the horse fair.’102‘Very well; only you must get three sacks and come with me to that rock which juts into the river.103I will throw you in from there, and you will fall nearly on to the horses’ backs.’104So he threw them in, and as they were never seen again, no one ever knew into which fair they had fallen.105From ‘Litterature Orale de L’Auvergne,’ par Paul Sebillot.106The Brown Bear of Norway107There was once a king in Ireland, and he had three daughters, and very nice princesses they were.108And one day, when they and their father were walking on the lawn, the king began to joke with them, and to ask them whom they would like to be married to.109‘I’ll have the king of Ulster for a husband,’ says one; ‘and I’ll have the king of Munster,’ says another; ‘and,’ says the youngest, ‘I’ll have no husband but the Brown Bear of Norway.’110For a nurse of hers used to be telling her of an enchanted prince that she called by that name, and she fell in love with him, and his name was the first name on her tongue, for the very night before she was dreaming of him.111Well, one laughed, and another laughed, and they joked with the princess all the rest of the evening.112But that very night she woke up out of her sleep in a great hall that was lighted up with a thousand lamps; the richest carpets were on the floor, and the walls were covered with cloth of gold and silver, and the place was full of grand company, and the very beautiful prince she saw in her dreams was there, and it wasn’t a moment till he was on one knee before her, and telling her how much he loved her, and asking her wouldn’t she be his queen.113Well, she hadn’t the heart to refuse him, and married they were the same evening.1 2← previousThe Lilac Fairy Book, part 11next →The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13↑ back to The Lilac Fairy BookThis page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/12/page/2/