The Dwarf Woman 167

He wagged his tail, and looked quite good,
but in his naughty heart he was saying—
“Yes, of course, 1 must pretend to do what
these idiotic creatures want. It is extremely
annoying to have to go without my dinner,
but I ate as much breakfast as I could, and
I shall just set off across the moor, and
directly I am out of sight lie down in the
sun under a stone, and go to sleep. It will
be very dull, I know, but when one has
to do with men one must suffer for their
stupidity.”

So he trotted on until he thought he was
safe, and then found a nice stone, where he
lay down, and dreamt of the honey-cakes he
meant to eat in the evening; and the master-
tailors wife hurried back, that she might tell
the children how nicely he had behaved, and
how he was running steadily in the right
direction.

And now you must know that a very
strange thing happened.

The farmer and his wife were miserable
at the loss of their children. They could