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Updated: June 7, 2025
In a moment a third eye shut, and Peronnik sang on. The lid of a fourth eye dropped heavily, and then those of the fifth and the sixth. The black man was asleep altogether.
Round the giant's neck hung the golden bowl suspended from a chain, and in his hand he grasped the diamond lance, which gleamed like fire. But as soon as he was out of sight the idiot sought in vain for traces of the path he had taken. This happened not only once but many times, till Peronnik grew so used to him that he never troubled to hide.
'Begged you to come! repeated the dwarf, 'and who, then, are you? 'I am the new servant he has engaged, as you know very well, answered Peronnik. 'I do not know at all, rejoined the korigan sulkily, 'and you may be a robber for all I can tell. 'I am so sorry, replied Peronnik, 'but I may be wrong in calling myself a servant, for I am only a bird-catcher.
As he did so, the ground shook beneath him, and with an awful rumbling the palace disappeared, and Peronnik found himself standing close to the forest where he led the cattle to graze. Though darkness was coming on, Peronnik never thought of entering the farm, but followed the road which led to the court of the duke of Brittany.
'But if I kill him, how am I to get the golden bowl and the diamond lance that are hidden in the cellar without a key? rejoined Peronnik. 'The flower that laughs opens all doors and lightens all darkness, said the lady; and as she spoke, they reached the further bank, and advanced towards the castle.
In front of the entrance was a sort of tent supported on poles, and under it the giant was sitting, basking in the sun. As soon as he noticed the colt bearing Peronnik and the lady, he lifted his head, and cried in a voice of thunder: 'Why, it is surely the idiot, riding my colt thirteen months old! 'Greatest of magicians, you are right, answered Peronnik.
'Yes; and in order to get there I have come from a country so far off that it has taken me three months' hard riding to travel as far as this. 'And why do you want to go to Kerglas? said she. 'I am seeking the basin of gold and the lance of diamonds which are in the castle, he answered. Then Peronnik looked up. 'The basin and the lance are very costly things, he said suddenly.
As he passed through the town of Vannes he stopped at a tailor's shop, and bought a beautiful costume of brown velvet and a white horse, which he paid for with a handful of gold that he had picked up in the corridor of the castle of Kerglas. Thus he made his way to the city of Nantes, which at that moment was besieged by the French. A little way off, Peronnik stopped and looked about him.
Oh, how good it was! Why had no one ever given it that before, and so absorbed was the little beast, sniffing about after a few more crumbs, that it never heard Peronnik creep up till it felt the halter on its neck and the rope round its feet, and in another moment some one on its back.
Luckily, just at that place the trees grew thinner, and he could see a small farmhouse a little way off. Peronnik went straight towards it, and found the farmer's wife standing at the door holding in her hands the large bowl out of which her children had eaten their supper. 'I am hungry, will you give me something to eat? asked the boy.
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