The Donkey Cabbage, part 3 · page 21 2101Whoever eats this apple shall have a child.’102(10) Convent Gnothi.103The Queen gave money to the old woman, and bought the apple from her.checked by a teacher104Then she peeled it, ate it, and threw the rind out of the window, and it so happened that a mare that was running loose in the court below ate up the rind.105After a time the Queen had a little boy, and the mare also had a male foal.106The boy and the foal grew up together and loved each other like brothers.107In course of time the King died, and so did the Queen, and their son, who was now nineteen years old, was left alone.108One day, when he and his horse were talking together, the Horse said to him, ‘Listen to me, for I love you and wish for your good and that of the country.109If you go on every year sending twelve youths and twelve maidens to the King of the Beasts, your country will very soon be ruined.110Mount upon my back: I will take you to a woman who can direct you how to kill the Seven-headed Serpent.’1 2← previousThe Donkey Cabbage, part 2next →The Donkey Cabbage, part 4↑ back to The Yellow Fairy BookThis page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/12/page/2/