It must be about the time that my mother takes all the eggs that have been laid in the day to the king's kitchen.' "'Throw thee once, throw thee twice, throw thee _thrice_,' roared the bull, each time shaking the henwife's daughter roughly, at the end flinging her to the ground.

'Shame on thee, thou henwife's daughter, to call thyself a true Princess.' "And with that off he rushed, furious, and from that day the ravages and the terrors began again, and Bruna found her way home, bruised and weeping, to tell her story.
"This was the tale now related to the Princess, and as she listened a strange look of determination and courage came over her face.
"'There is but one thing to be done,' she said.

'It is childish to attempt to deceive a creature who is evidently not what he seems.

Let me go myself, my parents.

Trust me to do my best.