Of course, he was too much ashamed to tell of all that had happened to him and said he had been hunting in the forest and lost his way; and Nardo and the Princess kept his secret and did not let him know they were aware of his treachery, and as he grew to be a better man as the years went by, they were glad they did.
OLD THREE HEADS
Once upon a time there was a little girl named Lucy. She was always opening doors and looking into rooms that did not belong to her, and it made her appear very rude.
One day Lucy was sent to the woods to gather berries, but instead of filling her basket as she should have done she walked about, looking behind rocks and trees, thinking that she might find an opening in some of them.
“Better look out for Old Three Heads,” said a squirrel, as he ran past her.
“I wonder what he means,” she said. “I must keep on looking, for somewhere around here Old Three Heads must live, or the squirrel would not have said ‘look out,’ and I want to see what he is like.”
“Better look out for Old Three Heads,” called a bird from the limb of a tree.
“Better look out for Old Three Heads,” called a rabbit as he ran into his hole.
“I wish some one would tell me where Old Three Heads lives,” said Lucy, “instead of just saying look out for him.”