you see in the picture. It shrieked and howled, 'Sentry, where
are you? Sentry, where are you? If you don't come, you shall
get the most cruel death anyone had ever got.'

It went all round the church, and when it finally caught sight of
the smith, up in the pulpit, it came rushing thither and mounted
the steps. But it could not get up the whole way, and for all
that it stretched and strained, it could not touch Christian, who
meanwhile stood and trembled up in the pulpit. When the clock
struck one, the appearance had to go back into the chest again,
and Christian heard the lid slam after it. After this there was
dead silence in the church. He lay down where he was and fell
asleep, and did not awake before it was bright daylight, and he
heard steps outside, and the noise of the key being put into the
lock. Then he came down from the pulpit, and stood with his
musket in front of the princess's chest.

It was the colonel himself who came with the patrol, and he was
not a little surprised when he found the recruit safe and sound.
He wanted to have a report, but Christian would give him none, so
he took him straight up to the king, and announced for the first
time that here was the sentinel who had stood guard in the church
over-night. The king immediately got out of bed, and laid the
hundred dollars for him on the table, and then wanted to question
him. 'Have you seen anything?' said he. 'Have you seen my
daughter?' 'I have stood at my post,' said the young smith, 'and
that is quite enough; I undertook nothing more.' He was not sure
whether he dared tell what he had seen and heard, and besides he
was also a little conceited because he had done what no other man
had been able to do, or had had courage for. The king professed