"Popular Tales of the West Highlands."[5] To bring it within our
space we must tell it in our own way.

Once upon a time every bird and other creature gathered to
battle. The son of the King of Tethertoun went to see the
battle, but it was over before he got there, all but one fight,
between a great Raven and a Snake; and the Snake was getting the
victory. The King's son helped the Raven, and cut off the
Snake's head. The Raven thanked him for his kindness and said,
"Now I will give thee a sight; come up on my wings;" and then
the Raven flew with him over seven mountains, and seven glens,
and seven moors, and that night the King's son lodged in the
house of the Raven's sisters; and promised to meet the Raven
next morning in the same place. This went on for three nights
and days, and on the third morning, instead of a raven, there
met him a handsome lad, who gave him a bundle, and told him not
to look into it, until he was in the place where he would most
wish to dwell. But the King's son did look into the bundle, and
then he found himself in a great castle with fine grounds about
it, and he was very sorry, because he wished the castle had been
near his father's house, but he could not put it back into the
bundle again. Then a great Giant met him, and offered to put the
castle back into a bundle for a reward, and this was to be the
Prince's son, when the son was seven years old. So the Prince
promised, and the Giant put everything back into the bundle, and
the Prince went home with it to his father's house. When he got
there he opened the bundle, and out came the castle and all the
rest, just as before, and at the castle door stood a beautiful
maiden who asked him to marry her, and they were married, and
had a son. When the seven years were up, the Giant came to ask