The Master-MaidOnce upon a time there was a king who had many sons. I do
not exactly know how many there were, but the youngest of them
could not stay quietly at home, and was determined to go out into
the world and try his luck, and after a long time the King was
forced to give him leave to go. When he had traveled about
for several days, he came to a giant’s house, and hired himself to
the giant as a servant. In the morning the giant had to go
out to pasture his goats, and as he was leaving the house he told
the King’s son that he must clean out the stable. “And after
you have done that,” he said, “you need not do any more work
to-day, for you have come to a kind master, and that you shall
find. But what I set you to do must be done both well and
thoroughly, and you must
