A PIECE OF GOOD LUCK

oven. Then the princess was gone, and Jacob Stuck
stood there sighing and sighing.

“Oh, dear! dear!” said he, “what shall I do? For,
proud as she is, I must see her again or else I will die
of it.”

All that day he sat sighing and thinking about the
beautiful princess, until the evening had come. Then he
suddenly thought of his piece of good luck. He pulled
his piece of blue glass out of his pocket and breathed
upon it and rubbed it with his thumb, and instantly the
Genie was there.

This time Jacob Stuck was not frightened at all.

“What are thy commands, O master?” said the
Genie.

“O Genie!” said Jacob Stuck, “I have seen the prin-
cess to-day, and it seems to me that there is nobody like
her in all the world. Tell me, could you bring her here
so that I might see her again ?”

“Yes,” said the Genie, “I could.”

“Then do so,” said Jacob Stuck, “and I will have
you prepare a grand feast, and have musicians to play
beautiful music, for I would have the princess sup with
me.”

“To hear is to obey,” said the Genie. As he spoke
he smote his hands together, and instantly there appeared
twenty musicians, dressed in cloth of gold and silver. .
With them they brought hautboys and fiddles, big and
little, and flageolets and drums and horns, and this and
that to make music with. Again the Genie smote his
hands together, and instantly there appeared fifty ser-
vants dressed in silks and satins and spangled with
jewels, who began to spread a table with fine linen

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