The White Cat sat on a chair and began to dip one of the mice her attendants brought her into a jar of honey. While she was eating her supper she said:
“Sir Prince, that is very easy. Take this acorn and open it and you shall find your dog.”
The prince hurried home the next day, and was just in time, for the two brothers had already arrived with their dogs.
The Prince, however, broke open the acorn, and out jumped the tiniest dog the king had ever seen. He frisked about and rolled over on the carpet, and jumped upon the chairs until the king could not make up his mind. So he sent the brothers out again to bring him the finest piece of cambric in the world. The young Prince went again to the White Cat and told her his trouble.
“That is easy,” said the White Cat. “Take this millet seed and open it and you shall have the cambric.” The young Prince hurried home with the millet seed, and when he opened it he could hardly believe his eyes for there were four hundred yards of cambric so fine it all went through the eye of a needle in a second.
The old king still shook his head and said:
“I will have to send you out again—and for the last time.” But what he sent them for we will have to learn to-morrow.