The yellow fairy book . owto use it, and, still speaking, lie fell into a deep sloop. And whenshe saw that the potion had worked, and that he was sound asleep,the Princess took the magic ring from his linger, and, go in-, into p2 186 THE MAGIC EING the courtyard, she threw it from the palm of one hand into theother. On the instant the twelve youths appeared, and asked herwhat she commanded them to do. Then she told them that hythe next morning they were to do away with the castle, and thebridge, and the church, and put in their stead the humble hut inv;hich Martin used to live with his mother,
The yellow fairy book . owto use it, and, still speaking, lie fell into a deep sloop. And whenshe saw that the potion had worked, and that he was sound asleep,the Princess took the magic ring from his linger, and, go in-, into p2 186 THE MAGIC EING the courtyard, she threw it from the palm of one hand into theother. On the instant the twelve youths appeared, and asked herwhat she commanded them to do. Then she told them that hythe next morning they were to do away with the castle, and thebridge, and the church, and put in their stead the humble hut inv;hich Martin used to live with his mother, and that while he slepther husband was to be carried to his old lowly room; and thatthey were to bear her away to the utmost ends of the earth, wherean old King lived who would make her welcome in his palace, andsurround her with the state that befitted a royal Princess. You shall be obeyed, answered the twelve youths at the samemoment. And lo and behold! the following morning, when the King Kejs w e LV eKrour\gine r\-. awoke and looked out of his window he beheld to his amazementthat the palace, bridge, church, and trees had all vanished, and therewas nothing in their place but a bare, miserable-looking hut. Immediately the King sent for his son-in-law, and commandedhim to explain what had happened. But Martin looked at hisroyal father-in-law, and answered never a word. Then the Kingwas very angry, and, calling a council together, he charged Martinwith having been guilty of witchcraft, and of having deceived theKing, and having made away with the Princess ; and he was con-demned to imprisonment in a high stone tower, with neither meatnor drink, till he should die of starvation. Then, in the hour of his dire necessity, his old friends Schurka(the dog) and Waska (the cat) remembered how Martin had once THE MAGIC RING 187 saved them from a cruel death; and they took counsel together asto how they should help him. And Hchurka growled, and was ofopinion that he would like to tear
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