So they bade their father good-bye, and after agreeing to be back at
the castle at the same hour, and on the same day, when a year should
have passed away, the three brothers all started together.
A great number of lords and servants accompanied them out of the city,
but when they had ridden about a league they sent everyone back, and
after embracing one another affectionately, they all set out to try
their luck in different directions.
The two eldest met with many adventures on their travels, but the
youngest saw the most wonderful sights of all.
He was young and handsome, and as clever as a Prince should be,
besides being brave.
Wherever he went he enquired for dogs, and hardly a day passed without
his buying several, big and little, greyhounds, spaniels, lap-dogs,
and sheep-dogs--in fact, every kind of dog that you could think of,
and very soon he had a troop of fifty or sixty trotting along behind
him, one of which he thought would surely win the prize.
So he journeyed on from day to day, not knowing where he was going,
until one night he lost his way in a thick dark forest, and after
wandering many weary miles in the wind and rain he was glad to see at
last a bright light shining through the trees.
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