"Where?"

"Get off your horse and lie down."

"If you will hold the horse."

Jack did so readily.

"I cannot see him," said the farmer.

"Shade your eyes with your hand, and you'll soon see a man flying away
from you."

Sure enough he did so, for Jack leaped on the horse, and rode away
with it. The farmer walked home without his horse.

"You are a bigger fool than I am," said the wife; "for I did only one
foolish thing, and you have done two."



BINNORIE

Once upon a time there were two king's daughters lived in a bower near
the bonny mill-dams of Binnorie. And Sir William came wooing the
eldest and won her love and plighted troth with glove and with ring.
But after a time he looked upon the youngest, with her cherry cheeks
and golden hair, and his love grew towards her till he cared no longer
for the eldest one. So she hated her sister for taking away Sir
William's love, and day by day her hate grew upon her, and she plotted