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prime minister had put in her mouth.
Then the king said: ‘Certainly, I will have the foal
killed, and you shall eat its heart; only wait till
Dan returns from school, that he may say good-
bye to his little horse.’
Now the king walked to meet Dan as he came back
from school, and told him that he must kill the foal.
So Dan said: ‘Certainly, dear father, you must do
what you see fit; only first of all let me pull on my
riding breeches, and take my little whip and gallop
round the paddock once on my little horse’s back.’
Then Dan ran to his foal, that looked sad and
woebegone, and told it what his father had said,
and what he had desired.
The foal said to him: ‘Call for a glass of wine, and
drink to your father’s health and the failure of your
mother’s and the prime minister’s plans; then
jump on my back, I will carry you far away.’
He did so. When he had pulled on his riding
breeches and taken his whip, he asked for a glass
of wine, and kneeling before his father, said: ‘I
drink to your health, father, and to the failure of
my mother’s and the prime minister’s plans, who
have sought to dethrone you and to kill me.’
Then he jumped on his foal’s back and away, away
he rode.
Now when the king had heard those words, he
wondered and examined into the matter, and then
all came out; so he had the prime minister hung,
and he put the queen in prison.
In the meantime the little horse had galloped
away, away over land and sea, and never halted .
till it came to England and to the city of London.
There, at the outskirts, it halted, and said: ‘Now
go into the town, but never speak any other word
but Don’t know to whatever is asked you, till
I give you leave.’
The pRnee promised this, and leaving his foal ina
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