"What a useful girl you are!" cried the Prince, beside himself with joy and admiration.
All day long they visited until Yellow Lily said that she must go, for she heard her father's footsteps a league away, and he would be there in two minutes.
When the giant saw that the prince had found the slumber-pin, he was greatly surprised.
"Either my daughter, Yellow Lily, has aided you, or else it was the Evil Spirit," he muttered.
Before the prince could reply, the giant picked him up, carried him back to the kitchen, and again threw him into the tank. Then he sat down by the fire, holding the slumber-pin. Soon he began to snore like a thousand locomotives.
Up went the lid of the tank, and Yellow Lily, sweet and smiling, shouted down at the top of her voice:
"Get up from your soft bed, Prince of Erin; eat the supper I have prepared, and talk as loudly as you wish, for father has gone to sleep holding great-great-grandmother's slumber-pin."
The evening they spent together was a merry one, and after Yellow Lily had joined her sisters in the watch-tower, the prince again slept in the soft bed in the corner of the kitchen. At dawn Yellow Lily again awakened him and told him to hurry back to the tank.
