But Ting had no intention of running back home just then, no indeed, for chancing to look up at the castle windows he had seen the Princess peeping out at him. And one sight of her was enough to make him want to stay there forever. So he told the twenty-headed Gallopus not to mind him but to go ahead and take his nap.
"I won't disturb you," he said. "I'll be just as quiet as a mouse."
"Very well," replied the Gallopus, "if you'll promise solemnly not to make any noise or chop off any of my heads, I'll do it, for I need the sleep. One of my heads had a headache last night and it kept all the others awake."
And with that he wobbled into his cave and began to snore like twenty locomotives all starting from the station at once.
"My gracious!" gasped the Prince, "he needn't worry about the noise I make."
Then he hurried across the courtyard until he came to the window where the Princess was sitting.
"Hello," he shouted at the top of his lungs. "How do you do?"
"Very well, thank you," screamed the Princess, leaning out of the window. "Isn't it dreadful the noise that old Gallopus makes?"
"Terrible," yelled Ting, thinking how lovely she was, all pink in the face from shouting so. "I've come to rescue you."
"Oh, isn't that splendid!" shrieked the Princess, smiling at him. "Do you think you can do it?"