“How can we ever get into a place like this?” said the eldest brother, looking very foolish.
“It looks to me very like a fool’s errand,” said the other.
“I vote we go back,” answered the first.
“The best thing we can do,” rejoined the second.
“And the sooner the better,” continued the first.
“Here we go, then,” added the second; and they turned their horses’ heads round, like chicken-hearted men, and galloped back by the way they had come.
They had not gone far when they met their younger brother toiling along in his cart.
“It is no use your going to the castle,” said the eldest brother: “we have been there, and find the game is impossible.”
“We shall see,” answered the youth.
“But I tell you the thing can’t be done!” ejaculated the second.