DANISH FAIRY AND FOLK TALES
will teach you manners." As one small dog carried a pretty collar, he considered it one of the prominent members of the party, and seizing it, placed it under his arm, saying: "I see that you refuse to pay what you owe me; but I will teach you something else before we part. Depend upon that!" Having delivered this speech, he repaired to the king's palace, the dog under his arm.
The king had a daughter who was very beautiful, but always downcast and afflicted. Her father had declared that he who was able to cheer her and make her laugh would be at liberty to marry her and ascend the throne with her when he himself died.
When the boy arrived at the palace one of the sentinels stopped him, forbidding him to pass. "How?" exclaimed the boy. "Am I not permitted to seek my rights by the king, when I am being cheated by villains? What a confounded state of affairs!" "What is your errand, then?" inquired the sentinel. The boy proceeded to tell him all, whereupon he was allowed to pass on condition of promising to pay the sentinel one-half of the money for the meat. Soon he was stopped by another guard, who also made him promise to pay one-half of the money which he hoped to obtain. At length he reached the king's rooms, and his presence was announced. When the king appeared the boy told him how wrongly he had been treated. The king
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