"Buy that plate-cupboard at the miser's sale," said the queen, and
she and her companions disappeared as before.



VII.

Upon the day of the sale all the things were brought out in the
road, and the plate-cupboard was put up, the lad recognising it and
bidding up for it till it was sold to him. When he had paid for it
he took it home in a cart, and when he got in and examined it, he
found the secret drawer behind was full of gold. The following week
the house and land, thirty acres, was put up for sale, and the lad
bought both, and married the miser's niece, and they lived happily
till they died.




THE CRAIG-Y-DON BLACKSMITH.

Once upon a time an old blacksmith lived in an old forge at
Craig-y-don, and he used to drink a great deal too much beer.

One night he was coming home from an alehouse very tipsy, and as he
got near a small stream a lot of little men suddenly sprang up from
the rocks, and one of them, who seemed to be older than the rest,
came up to him, and said,

"If you don't alter your ways of living you'll die soon; but if you