"For my part, I think she deserves to be put into boiling tar."

Then the king started up from the table in a great rage, and said--

"You have pronounced doom on yourselves. Such punishment shall you
suffer!"

He ordered the two women to be taken out to die as they themselves had
said, and no one save Swanwhite begged him to have mercy on them.

After that the king was married to the beautiful maiden, and all folk
agreed that nowhere could be found a finer queen. The king gave his own
sister to the brave young man, and there was great joy in all the king's
palace.

There they live prosperous and happy unto this day, for all I know.




TALES OF TREASURE.


There are still to be seen near Flensborg the ruins of a very ancient
building. Two soldiers once stood on guard there together, but when one
of them was gone to the town, it chanced that a tall white woman came to
the other, and spoke to him, and said--

"I am an unhappy spirit, who has wandered here these many hundred years,