of the water, and the Griffin will rest upon it."

So the Princess went to the Red Sea, and counted the reeds, and
cut off the eleventh reed, and beat the Caterpillar with it, and
then the Lion conquered in the fight, and both of them took
their human forms again. But the Enchanted Princess was too
quick for the poor wife, for she instantly seized the Prince and
sprang upon the back of the Griffin, and away they flew, quite
out of sight. Now the poor deserted wife sat down on the
desolate shore, and cried bitterly; and then she said, "So far
as the wind blows, and so long as the cock crows, will I search
for my husband, till I find him;" and so she travelled on and
on, until one day she came to the palace whither the Enchanted
Princess had carried the Prince; and there was great feasting
going on, and they told her that the Prince and Princess were
about to be married. Then she remembered what the Sun had said,
and took out the casket and opened it, and there was the most
beautiful dress in all the world; as brilliant as the Sun
himself. So she put it on, and went into the palace, and
everybody admired the dress, and the Enchanted Princess asked if
she would sell it?

"Not for gold or silver," she said, "but for flesh and blood."

"What do you mean?" the Princess asked.

"Let me sleep for one night in the bridegroom's chamber," the
wife said. So the Enchanted Princess agreed, but she gave the
Prince a sleeping draught, so that he could not hear his wife's
cries; and in the morning she was driven out, without a word