`Take courage, pretty Princess, all is not lost yet. Take this
pitcher of milk and drink it up, and whatever you do, don't leave a
drop for Fanfaronade.'

The Princess, quite astonished, looked round, and saw a big
pitcher full of milk, but before she could raise it to her lips the
thought of how thirsty Fanfaronade must be, after eating at least
fifteen pounds of honey, made her run back to him and say:

`Here is a pitcher of milk; drink some, for you must be thirsty
I am sure; but pray save a little for me, as I am dying of hunger
and thirst.'

But he seized the pitcher and drank all it contained at a single
draught, and then broke it to atoms on the nearest stone, saying
with a malicious smile: `As you have not eaten anything you cannot
be thirsty.'

`Ah!' cried the Princess, `I am well punished for disappointing
the King and Queen, and running away with this Ambassador
about whom I knew nothing.'

And so saying she wandered away into the thickest part of the
wood, and sat down under a thorn tree, where a nightingale was
singing. Presently she heard him say: `Search under the bush
Princess; you will find some sugar, almonds, and some tarts there
But don't be silly enough to offer Fanfaronade any.' And this
time the Princess, who was fainting with hunger, took the nightingale's
advice, and ate what she found all by herself. But Fanfaronade,
seeing that she had found something good, and was not