They threatened to rise in revolution unless some means were found of ridding them of their terrible visitor.

Then the king called together the wisest of his counsellors, and finding force of no avail, they determined to try cunning.

The giving the Princess was not to be thought of, but a pretty girl about her age and size--the gardener's daughter, the same whom the Princess had found weeping over her fate--was chosen, dressed in one of her royal mistress's beautiful robes, and a message sent to the bull that his request was to be granted.

He came.

All round, the castle was protected by soldiers, though they well knew their power against him was nothing.