instructions on this point. The prince looked at the hole, and saw
but one way. He put both his legs into it, sitting on the stone,
and, stooping forward, covered the corner that remained open with
his two hands. In this uncomfortable position he resolved to abide
his fate, and turning to the people, said,--

"Now you can go."

The king had already gone home to dinner.

"Now you can go," repeated the princess after him, like a parrot.

The people obeyed her and went.

Presently a little wave flowed over the stone, and wetted one of
the prince's knees. But he did not mind it much. He began to sing,
and the song he sang was this:--


"As a world that has no well,
Darting bright in forest dell;
As a world without the gleam
Of the downward-going stream;
As a world without the glance
Of the ocean's fair expanse;
As a world where never rain
Glittered on the sunny plain;--
Such, my heart, thy world would be,
if no love did flow in thee.