'The first thing you see to-morrow morning,' said he, 'when you rise from your bed, will be me.' "The morning came, and when the knight was getting up, the lady was so afraid of seeing Orton that she pretended to be sick, and would not rise.

The knight, however, was resolved, and leapt up with the hope of seeing him in a proper form, but nothing appeared.

He ran to the windows, and opened the shutters to let the light in, but still there was no appearance in his room.
"At night Orton came, and told him he had appeared in the form of two straws, which, he might have observed, whirled about on the floor.
"The knight was much displeased, and insisted on not being thus played with: 'when I have seen you once,' said he, 'I desire no more.' "''Tis well,' replied Orton.

'Remark, then, the first object which meets your eye when you leave your chamber, that will be me.' "The next day the Lord of Coarraze got up, as usual; and when he was ready, he went out of his room into a gallery, which overlooked a court of his castle.

The first thing which attracted his notice was a large sow, the most enormous creature he had ever beheld in his life; but she was so thin, that she seemed nothing but skin and bone, and she looked miserable and starved, with a long snout and emaciated limbs.
"The lord was amazed and annoyed at seeing this animal in his court-yard, and cried out to his people to drive it away, and set the hounds upon it.