gods, or how could you have had a chariot-fight with him? She
should be given to me."

The brave man said: "If I had not killed the giant in the fight, who
would have saved her in spite of all your pains? The girl should be
given to me."

And as they quarrelled, Hariswami stood silent, confused, and
perplexed.


When the goblin had told this story, he said to the king: "O King,
do you say to which of them she should be given. If you know and
will not tell, then your head will split into a hundred pieces."

Then the king broke silence and said: "She should be given to the
brave man, who risked his life and killed the giant and saved the
girl. The wise man and the clever man were only helpers whom
Fate gave him. A star-gazer and a chariot-maker work for other
people, do they not?"

When the goblin heard this answer, he suddenly escaped from the
king's shoulder and went back. And the king determined to get
him, and went again to the sissoo tree.


SIXTH GOBLIN

The Girl who transposed the Heads of her Husband and Brother.
Which combination of head and body is her husband?