Part 22 (2/2)

But he was not to be disheartened; he smeared his face with black and brown, drew his cap over his forehead, and knocked at the Palace door

The Emperor opened it

”Good day, Eet work at the Palace?”

”Well, there are soplaces,” said the Eood s to keep”

So the Prince was made I-sty and here he was obliged to stay But the whole day he sat and worked, and by the evening he had made a neat little pipkin, and round it was a set of bells, and as soon as the pot began to boil, the bells fell to jingling most sweetly and played the old !”[54]

But the er in the steam of the pipkin, you could i on every hearth in the town That was so very different fro out with her ladies-in-waiting, and when she heard the melody, she stopped short, and looked pleased, for she could play ”Ach du lieber Augustin” herself; it was the only tune she knew, and that she played with one finger ”Why, that is the tune I play,”

she said ”What a cultivated Swineherd he must be Go down and ask him how much his instrued to go down, but she put on pattens first

”How

”I will have ten kisses froracious!” said the Lady-in-waiting

”I will not take less,” said the Swineherd

”Well, what did he say?” asked the Princess

”I really cannot tell you,” said the Lady-in-waiting ”It is too dreadful”

”Then you must whisper it,” said the Princess

So she whispered it

”He is very rude,” said the Princess, and she walked away But she had gone only a few steps when the bells sounded so sweetly:

”Ach du lieber Augustin Alles ist eg!”

”Listen,” said the Princess, ”ask hi”

”No, thank you,” said the Swineherd ”I will have ten kisses from the Princess, or, I will keep my pipkin”

”How tiresome!” said the Princess; ”but you must stand round me, so that nobody shall see”

So the ladies-in-waiting stood round her and they spread out their skirts The Swineherd got the kisses, and she got the pipkin

How delighted she was All the evening and the whole of the next day, that pot was ht have knohat everybody was cooking on every hearth in town, from the Chamberlain's to the shoemaker's The court ladies danced and clapped their hands