"'MAY I HAVE YOUR DAUGHTER NOW?' said Boots.
"'Yes, yes! Pray take her and keep her, and half the realm besides,' said the king, for he couldn't say 'No' any longer.
"So they held the bridal feast, and kept it up and rejoiced and fired off witch shots, and meanwhile they went looking about for charges, and then they took me and gave me porridge in a flask, and milk in a basket, and then they shot me off here to you, that I might tell you all how the wedding went off."
THE TOWN-MOUSE AND THE FELL-MOUSE.
"Once on a time there was a fell-mouse and a town-mouse, and they met on a hill brae, where the fell-mouse sat in a hazel thicket and plucked nuts.
"'God help you, sister,' said the town-mouse. 'Do I meet my kinsfolk here so far out in the country?'
"'Yes! so it is;' said the fell-mouse.
"'You gather these nuts and carry them to your house?' said the town-mouse.
"'Yes; I must do it,' said the fell-mouse, 'if we are to have anything to live on.'