very sad, like a woman who has been robbed.

And the king said: "Why are you so sad, my dear? Tell me." And
the fairy said: "The curse is over. Yet because I have been bound
so long in the fetters of your love, I have lost my magic arts. I
cannot fly." Then the king thought: "The fairy is really mine," and
he was happy and made a great feast.

When the counsellor Farsight saw this, he went home, and lay
down on his bed, and his heart broke, and he died. Then the king
governed the kingdom himself, and lived for a long time in
heavenly happiness with Moonlight.


When he had told this story, the goblin said: "O King, when the
king was so happy, why should the counsellor's heart break? Was
it from grief because he did not win the fairy himself? Or from
sorrow because the king came back, and he could no longer act as
king? If you know and will not tell me, then you will lose your
virtue, and your head will go flying into a hundred pieces."

And the king said to the goblin: "O magic creature, neither of these
reasons would be possible for a high-minded counsellor. But he
thought: The king used to neglect his duties for the sake of
ordinary women. What will happen now, when he loves a fairy? In
spite of all my efforts, a terrible misfortune has happened.' I think
that was why his heart broke."

Then the magic goblin went back to his tree in a moment. And the
king was still determined to catch him, and went once more to the