| @ a There was oneg 8 King's son who wished to travel about the world, so he rode off with his manservant. Ong day they came to a great forest, ‘and when night time came, they could not find shelter, and didn’t know where to stay the night Ye Ye‘Then he sew 8 girl who was going towards 8 small houag, he went up and esked, "My lady, can | and mg servant find shelter for the night in the little house?” She responded, "Oh, yes, but mg step-mother dogsn’t like strangers, and practices magic.” tle guessed he must have come to the house of @ witeh. The daughter werned the two, not to gat or drink anything end theg entered. They slept quietly antil early morning, i & Re w% ! xwe & fis they got ready to leave, the Ring's son wos already seated on his horag, when the old woman said, "Stop 8 moment, I will first get gou e drink." When she went to feteh it, the King's son rode ‘way. The servant was the only ong left when the wicked witch came with the drink to give to the prineg. But when she returned with the bottle she spilled some and it hit the horse, who fell down dead. S.we & The servant ron efter his master and told him what hed happened, but he had left his supplics behind him, so ran back to feteh them. tlowever when he came baek to the horse a raven was already eating it, "Who knows if we shall find engthing better today?” seid the servant; 30 he killed the reven, and took it with him. KS @ xf [x ey w% They journeyed onwards and by nightfall theg found an inn and entered it. The servant gave the raven to the innkegper to make reedy for supper tlowever siting around the inn werg 12 robbers eached planned on robing the prince. Before they started the raven supper was ready and the 12 demanded they eat before the prince. tifter they had swallowed @ couple of mouthfuls theg ell fell down dead, es the raven held the same poison that killed the horse osThe next day the prinee rode onwerds with his servent and they had treveled about for a long timg until they camg to a town. In this town was ® beautiful but proud prinegss, who had said that whoever could set her a riddle that she could not enawer, she would merry him. She hed three days to gugas it in, but wea so clever thet she always found the answer to the riddig before that x fiW hen the King's son arrived he was blinded bg her great beauty, and wanted to be her husband Then he went to her and laid his riddle before her. "What is this?” he sterted, "Ong killed none, end get killed twelve." She did not know what that was, she thought and thought, but she could not find out, she opened her riddie-books, bat it was not in them. ie 8 & mThat night she still did nol know how to answer, 30 she aent her maid to ergep into the princes room, and ask while he slept. But they were ready for this and the servant was in the bed, not the prince, so when the maid came there, he tore off from her cloak in which she hed wrapped hgragif, end chased her out. The ageond night the prinegss sent another maid, who was to see If she could get the answer, but again the servant took her cloak and again chased her out 6On the third might es the prinee slept the prineess camg Into the room and shg asked, hoping for an answer, "Ong Killed nong, what is that?” but he wos still awake and had a plan so he simply replied, "fi raven, which ate o poisoned horse, and then was killed” She then asked, “find yet killed twelve, what is thet?” tie answered, "That means twelve robbers, who ate the raven and died of it." fla ahg started to leave the prineg held omto her cloak hard and so she left it behind, 2 5 lls ,i & Next morning, the prinegss announced that she had the enswer, end announegd to the room what she hed heard the night before. Bat the prineg seid to them "She came into my room in the night and questioned mg, otherwise she could not have diseovered it." The adviser said, “Bring us a proof of this." So the prieg called for his servant who brought in the three cloaks, end when the room saw the misty-grey ong, whieh the princess asually wore, they knew he was apseking the trath x 8 o‘Then the cloaks were sewn and embroidered with gold end silver, this then beeame her wedding dress: the two soon married. they raed over the lend for many gears and they were happy. The end. x a Rb &