"Trickle and run," said Boots; and so the water trickled and ran, till
it gushed out of the hole in a stream, and in a short time the well was
brimful.

Then Boots had felled the oak which shaded the King's palace, and dug a
well that held water all the year around, and so he got the princess and
half the kingdom, as the King had said. And it was lucky for Peter and
Paul that they were on the barren island, else they had heard each day
and hour how every one said: "Well, after all, Boots did not wonder
about things for nothing."




THE LAD WHO WENT TO THE NORTH WIND


Once on a time there was an old widow who had one son, and as she was
feeble and weak, she asked her son to go out to the storehouse and fetch
meal for cooking. But when he got outside the storehouse, and was just
going down the steps, there came the North Wind, puffing and blowing,
caught up the meal, and away with it through the air. Then the lad went
back into the storehouse for more; but when he came out again on the
steps, the North Wind came again and carried off the meal with a puff;
and more than that, he did it the third time. At this the lad got very
angry; and as it seemed hard that the North Wind should behave so, he
thought he would go in search of him and ask him to give up his meal.

So off he went, but the way was long, and he walked and walked. At last
he came to the North Wind's house.