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The Stag bore Vasta, the sccond sistery away with him, right into the heart of a dark wood, and here he lived with her o the most beautiful house and garden you can Hmagine.

The Dolphin swam with Rita, who was the youngest sister, on his back, right across the sea, till he came to a huge rock, and on the rock stood a house in which three crowned kings might have lived i comfort and luxury.

In the meantime the Queen gave birth to a beautiful little bov, whom she called Tittone. When he was fifteen years old he determined to set out into the world and seek tidings of his three sisters, for his mother did nothing but hewail them loss, and the unhappy fate which had given them three Beasts for their husbands. At first his father and mother could not be prevatled on to let him go, but at length they yiclded to his entreaties, and having provided him with a suttable escort and with a ring the same as his sisters, they took atender farewell of him. So the young Prince sct forth on his travels, and wandered for many years through all the diffcrent countries of the world without ever coming on a trace of the three Prineesses. At last one day he came to the mountam where IFabiella and the Bagle lived, and when he saw their palace Tittone stood still, lost in admiration of its marble pillars and alabaster walls, its windows ol erystal and roof of ghttering gold.

As soon as Iabiclla saw him she called him to her and asked him who he was, where he came from, and what business had led him thither. When the Prince

had described his native land, his father P . { .. and s mother, and answered all the P . \ . C g . | Princess’s questions, IFabiclla recognised S

him as her brother, and she became quite certain of the fact when she com- parcd his ring with the one she always wore. She embraced her brother ten- derly 5 but, fearful lest her husband should object to his arrival; she hid hin i a cupboard.

Whnen the Lacle came home that cvening Fabiclla confided to him that she was very homessick, and that she had been suddenly seized with a strong desire to sce her own people once more. "The Fagle answered s Ty and get over this wish, my dear wife, for 1t cannot be fulfilled ull T become a man azain.”

“\Well, then,” said Fabiclla, “af 1t s impossible for me to go to them, let

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us mvite one ol relations to come and visit us hered”

“SWith all my heart,” rephed the Fagle, “hut I don't think anyone would take the trouble to come such a long way to sce you.”

“But suppose someone had come, and was 1 the paliee at this moment, would you object 27 askoed his wife.

O course not.” answered the agle. “ Anyv relation of vours would be as dear Lo me as the apple of my cye.”

When Fabiella heard these words she took heart, and, coing to the cuphoard, she opened i, and showed the Fagle her hrother hidden there,

The lagle grected him warmly, and said

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