And as the King rose to greet her as his daughter, the trumpets sounded
loudly in honour of the new Princess, and the people outside in the
street said to each other:
"Ah! now the Prince has chosen for his wife the loveliest girl in all
the land!"
But the gooseherd was never seen again, and no one knew what became of
him; while the old lord went home once more to his Palace by the sea,
for he could not stay at Court, when he had sworn never to look on his
granddaughter's face.
So there he still sits by his window, if you could only see him, as you
some day may, weeping more bitterly than ever, as he looks out over the
sea.
The Wee Bannock
_"Grannie, grannie, come tell us the story of the wee bannock."_
_"Hout, childer, ye've heard it a hundred times afore. I needn't
tell it over again."_
_"Ah! but, grannie, it's such a fine one. You must tell it. Just
once."_
_"Well, well, if ye'll all promise to be good, I'll tell it ye
again.
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