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'Yes; it is so fated', said the king; 'so it must be. Then they got ready the wedding in right down earnest, and lost no time about it; and the lad got on Dapplegrim, and the Princess on Dapplegrim's match, and then you may fancy they were not long on their way to the church. Once on a time there was a man and his wife, who had an only son, and his name was Jack.
Yes! he should have meadow-hay and oats, as much as Dapple could cram, and all the other knights had to lead their horses out of the stable that Dapplegrim might stand alone, and have it all to himself. But it wasn't long before all the others in the king's household began to be jealous of the lad, and there was no end to the bad things they would have done to him, if they had only dared.
'Yes; I heard something like a foal neighing quite plainly a long, long way off, answered the youth. 'That's a full-grown colt, said Dapplegrim, 'if you hear it so plainly when it is so far away from us. So they travelled onwards a long time, and saw one new scene after another once more. Then Dapplegrim neighed again. 'Do you hear anything now? said he.
So when the lad asked for all these things, he got them at once the king couldn't say nay for very shame; and so Dapplegrim got new shoes, and such shoes! Then the lad jumped upon his back, and off they went again; and for every leap that Dapplegrim gave, down sank the ridge fifteen feet into the earth, and so they went on till there was nothing left of the ridge for the king to see.
Then the giant knew that the voice was outside the bedroom, and rushed up to find Edgar and his bride, but found they were gone. He rushed to the stable and chose his great horse Dapplegrim and rode after Prince Edgar and the Master-Maid.
So he went into the stable, down in the mouth and heavy-hearted, and then Dapplegrim asked him at once why he was in such doleful dumps. Then the lad told him all, and how he couldn't tell which way to turn, and he said: "As for setting the Princess free, that's downright nonsense." "Oh, but it might be done, perhaps," said Dapplegrim. "But you must first have me well shod.
So they travelled on and on, and changed the landscape once or twice, perhaps, and then Dapplegrim neighed the third time; but before he could ask the lad if he heard anything, something gave such a neigh across the heathery hillside, the lad thought hill and rock would surely be rent asunder.
So he went into the stable, down in the mouth and heavy-hearted, and then Dapplegrim asked him at once why he was in such dumps. Then the lad told him all, and how he couldn't tell which way to turn: 'For as for setting the Princess free, that's downright stuff. 'Oh! but it might be done, perhaps', said Dapplegrim. 'I'll help you through; but you must first have me well shod.
When the giant came up to the stream and tried to make Dapplegrim swim through it he would not; and then he lay down on the bank of the stream and commenced to drink up as much of it as he could. And he drank and he drank and he drank, till at last he swallowed so much that he burst; and that was the end of the giant.
Such a horse is Dapplegrim in No. xl, of these tales, who saves his master out of all his perils, and brings him to all fortune, and is another example of that mysterious connection with the higher powers which animals in all ages have been supposed to possess.
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