DON’T- and at once you will have a splendid horse to ride

KNOW and grand clothes to put on.’
So Dan shook the bridle, and immediately a chest-
nut horse stood before him with a red suit of
clothes over the saddle, and all the accoutrements
were of copper.
Then Dan jumped on his back and rode round and
round the garden, till all the beds were trampled
and spoiled. Then he leaped off the horse, which
vanished along with the splendid red garments
Dan had worn.
Now it fell out that the king’s third daughter, the
youngest of his children, had not gone to church
that day, as she had a bad cold. She had been
looking out of the window, and saw all that had
happened.
When the gardeners came back from church, they
were very angry, and they said to Dan: ‘Who has
been here spoiling the flower-beds ?’
‘Don’t know.’
‘Why did you not keep proper guard?’
‘Don’t know.’
‘Were you asleep or awake?’
‘Don’t know.’
‘I hope,’ said the head-gardener, ‘that you
know one thing, which is that you deserve a
hiding ?’
‘Don’t know.’
It took a dozen men a whole week to put the gar-
den in order again, and a month before any flowers
grew in it.
Then again it came to Dan’s turn to remain at
home while the rest went to church.
The princess had told no one of what she had seen.
Again she had a cold, and so she remained at home.
And this is what she saw :—
No sooner were all at church, and Dan thought
himself alone, than he went into the garden
and shook the bridle, whereupon a white horse

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