the horse fair?'

'As if I did not know it, when I have seen it with my own eyes.'

'Then if you do not want us to avenge our dead flocks and our
murdered wives, you will have to throw us into the river just
over the place of the horse fair.'

'Very well; only you must get three sacks and come with me to
that rock which juts into the river. I will throw you in from
there, and you will fall nearly on to the horses' backs.'

So he threw them in, and as they were never seen again, no one
ever knew into which fair they had fallen.

From 'Litterature Orale de L'Auvergne,' par Paul Sebillot.







The Brown Bear of Norway




There was once a king in Ireland, and he had three daughters, and
very nice princesses they were. And one day, when they and their