So Halvor laid his head down on her lap, and she combed it, and
it was not long before he fell asleep. Then she took her ring from
him and put another in its place, and then she said to her sisters:
`Hold me as I am holding you. I would that we were at Soria
Moria Castle.'

When Halvor awoke he knew that he had lost the Princesses,
and began to weep and lament, and was so unhappy that he could
not be comforted. In spite of all his father's and mother's entreaties,
he would not stay, but bade them farewell, saying that he would
never see them more, for if he did not find the Princess again he
did not think it worth while to live.

He again had three hundred dollars, which he put into his pocket
and went on his way. When he had walked some distance he met
a man with a tolerably good horse. Halvor longed to buy it, and
began to bargain with the man.

`Well, I have not exactly been thinking of selling him,' said the
man, `but if we could agree, perhaps----'

Halvor inquired how much he wanted to have for the horse.

`I did not give much for him, and he is not worth much; he is
a capital horse to ride, but good for nothing at drawing; but he will
always be able to carry your bag of provisions and you too, if you
walk and ride by turns.' At last they agreed about the price, and
Halvor laid his bag on the horse, and sometimes he walked and
sometimes he rode. In the evening he came to a green field, where