their days.

With the first sunbeam the watch came and opened the church, and
not only was the colonel there, but the king in person, come to
see what had happened to the sentinel. He found them both
sitting hand in hand on the step in front of the altar, and
immediately knew his daughter again, and took her in his arms,
thanking God and her deliverer. He made no objections to what
they had arranged, and so Christian the smith held his wedding
with the princess, and got half the kingdom at once, and the
whole of it when the king died.

As for the other sentries, with so many doors and windows open,
no doubt they had run away, and gone into the Prussian service.
And as for what Christian said he saw, he had been drinking more
wine than was good for him.





The Three Brothers
Translated from the German of the Brothers Grimm.



There was once a man who had three sons, and no other possessions
beyond the house in which he lived. Now the father loved his
three sons equally, so that he could not make up his mind which
of them should have the house after his death, because he did not