Just undo the cord and let
me out; they tied me up tight, as they knew I'd run away from her."
Out crawled Donald; in crept the farmer.
"Now lie still, and don't mind the shaking; it's only rumbling
over the palace steps you'll be. And maybe they'll abuse you for a
vagabond, who won't have the King's daughter; but you needn't mind
that. Ah, it's a deal I'm giving up for you, sure as it is that I
don't care for the Princess."
"Take my cattle in exchange," said the farmer; and you may guess it
wasn't long before Donald was at their tails, driving them homeward.
Out came Hudden and Dudden, and the one took one end of the pole, and
the other the other.
"I'm thinking he's heavier," said Hudden.
"Ah, never mind," said Dudden; "it's only a step now to the Brown
Lake."
"I'll have her now! I'll have her now!" bawled the farmer from inside
the sack.
"By my faith and you shall, though," said Hudden, and he laid his
stick across the sack.
"I'll have her! I'll have her!" bawled the farmer, louder than ever.
"Well, here you are," said Dudden, for they were now come to the Brown
Lake, and, unslinging the sack, they pitched it plump into the lake.
"You'll not be playing your tricks on us any longer," said Hudden.
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