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Updated: May 14, 2025
But the witch kindled a fire on the hearth, threw a potful of barleycorns among the cinders, and said to the girl: 'If you have not picked the barley out of the ashes, and put it all back in the pot before nightfall, I shall eat you up! Then she hastened after the others, and the poor girl stayed at home and wept.
It is said that we Scots, when there was such a nation in existence, have, among our full peck of virtues, one or two little barleycorns of vice.
The Queen ate the barleycorns, and sure enough after nine months she bore the most charming, lovely, splendid Prince that ever was seen, who was called Lionheart, because he was so brave and so strong. Now when he grew up to man's estate, Prince Lionheart grew restless also, and was for ever begging his father the King to allow him to travel in the wide world and seek adventures.
It was not a sumptuous repast, the staple being a haggis, also broth with chunks of meat and barleycorns floating in it, the meat in strings by force of boiling.
"The barleycorns of your native North having been partially cleaned out of your hair by contact with the two enchanted steeds the steed you bridled without a head, and the steed that ran away with you without legs," said the Ancient "we have brought you hither for examination.
They have gained no increase after all these pilgrimages and I flatter myself that they are in some sort graceful ay? Now remark my head. What does Hamlet, or somebody, say about the front of Jove? This trip to Italy has actually enlarged the diameter of my head thirteen barleycorns! Thirteen, by measurement!"
'Break off one of my branches, and strike the hearth with it crosswise, and all will be put right. The girl did so. She struck the hearth with the birchen branch, and lo! the barleycorns flew into the pot, and the hearth was clean. Then she went back to the birch tree and laid the branch upon the grave.
Once upon a time there lived a King and Queen who would have been as happy as the day was long had it not been for this one circumstance, they had no children. At last an old fakir, or devotee, coming to the palace, asked to see the Queen, and giving her some barleycorns, told her to eat them and cease weeping, for in nine months she would have a beautiful little son.
In the midst of her grief she suddenly heard her mother's voice speak from the grave, and say to her: 'Why do you weep, little daughter? 'The witch has scattered barleycorns on the hearth, and bid me pick them out of the ashes, said the girl; 'that is why I weep, dear little mother. 'Do not weep, said her mother consolingly.
They were interrupted by another dance being called for, and then, his fingers tapping about upon the keys as mechanically as fowls pecking at barleycorns, Christopher gave himself up with a curious and far from unalloyed pleasure to the occupation of watching Ethelberta, now again crossing the field of his vision like a returned comet whose characteristics were becoming purely historical.
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