'Why should the little shepherdess girls look always so happy and merry, while I am dying of dulness ?' "The king thought it was very unkind of her to say she was dying of dulness when he had taken so much trouble to get her all she wanted; but he knew it was no good talking to her while she was in such a temper.

So all he said was: "'How can I turn you into a shepherdess?
These shepherdesses stay out all night with their sheep on the hills, and live on water and a crust of bread.

How would you like that ?' "'Of course I-should like it,' said the queen, 'anything for a change.
Besides, nothing could be nicer than staying out of doors these lovely nights.

And as for food, you know very well that I am never hungry here, and that it doesn't matter in the least to me what I eat!' "'Well,' said the king, 'you shall go up to the hills, if you promise to take your ladies with you, and if you will let me send a tent to shelter you at night, and some servants to look after you.' "'As if that would give me any pleasure!' said the queen, 'to be followed about and waited upon is just what I detest.

I will go alone; just like that pretty little shepherdess, if I go at all.' "But the king declared that nothing would induce him to let her go alone.