As Two-Eyes looked out of her window in the castle, she saw that the tree had followed her to her new home. Every day she gathered silver leaves and golden fruit. Nobody could gather them but herself, but she gave them all to the prince.
By and by, the prince fell in love with Two-Eyes and married her. They lived long and were very happy. One day there came to her castle two women begging. She knew at once by their eyes that they were her sisters. As soon as she saw them and noticed how poor they were, she made them come in and fed them and sent them back after her mother. After that they all lived together very happily, for Two-Eyes forgave them their unkind treatment.
THE PROUD KING
Part One
Even kings should have other motives than merely to wear fine clothes.
There was once a king who was so proud of himself that he thought all the earth was just made for him to live on. He called himself the emperor, and lay awake at night thinking how great he was. Of course everybody agreed to this and that made him worse than ever.
One day while the proud king was bathing in a great lake, a man who looked exactly like him came along and took the king’s clothes, and left his own poor clothing in its place. When the king came to the shore he found his own clothes gone, and all his attendants ridden away. He was in a great rage, but he had to put on the poor clothing he found on the banks of the lake, and walked like any ordinary man up to a knight’s castle.
He beat on the gate and called aloud. The porter opened the gate and said: