shoemaker for his kindness to her. This is like the story of
"The Master Maid," in Dr. Dasent's collection of "Tales from the
Norse." But there is the end of it to come. The shoemaker had to
finish some shoes because the young King was going to be
married; and the maiden said she should like to see the King
before he married. So the shoemaker took her to the King's
castle; and then she went into the wedding-room, and because of
her beauty they filled a vessel of wine for her. When she was
going to drink it, there came a flame out of the glass, and out
of the flame there came a silver pigeon and a golden pigeon; and
just then three grains of barley fell upon the floor, and the
silver pigeon ate them up. Then the golden one said, "If thou
hadst mind when I cleaned the byre, thou wouldst not eat that
without giving me a share." Then three more grains fell, and the
silver pigeon ate them also. Then said the golden pigeon, "If
thou hadst mind when I thatched the byre, thou wouldst not eat
that without giving me a share." Then three other grains fell,
and the silver pigeon ate them up. And the golden pigeon said,
"If thou hadst mind when I harried the magpie's nest, thou
wouldst not eat that without giving me my share. I lost my
little finger bringing it down, and I want it still." Then,
suddenly, the King's son remembered, and knew who it was, and
sprang to her and kissed her from hand to mouth; and the priest
came, and they were married.

These stories will be enough to show how the same idea repeats
itself in different ways among various peoples who have come
from the same stock: for the ancient Hindu legend of Urvasi and
Pururavas, the Greek fable of Eros and Psyche, the Norse story
of the Land East of the Sun and West of the Moon, the Teutonic