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At this moment they were all open, and Peronnik knew well that if the black man caught a glimpse of him he would cast his ball. So, hiding the colt behind a thicket of bushes, he crawled along a ditch and crouched close to the very rock to which the black man was chained. The day was hot, and after a while the man began to grow sleepy. Two of his eyes closed, and Peronnik sang gently.
The idiot obeyed, but at the first taste of the apple the giant staggered, and as the long yellow finger of the woman touched him he fell dead. Leaving the magician where he lay, Peronnik entered the palace, bearing with him the flower that laughs. Fifty doors flew open before him, and at length he reached a long flight of steps which seemed to lead into the bowels of the earth.
'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.
'If I do, continued the knight, 'I shall then meet a sort of fairy armed with a needle of fire which burns to ashes all it touches. This dwarf stands guarding an apple-tree, from which I am bound to pluck an apple. 'And next? inquired Peronnik. 'Next I shall find the flower that laughs, protected by a lion whose mane is formed of vipers.
The idiot rode up, and took off his cap more politely than ever, and asked if she did not wish to cross the river. 'I was waiting for you to help me do so, answered she. 'Come near, that I may get up behind you. Peronnik did as she bade him, and by the help of his arm she jumped nimbly on to the back of the colt.
As to the bowl and the lance, no one knows what became of them, but some say that Bryak the sorcerer managed to steal them again, and that any one who wishes to possess them must seek them as Peronnik did. From 'Le Foyer Breton, par Emile Souvestre. THERE was to be a great battle between all the creatures of the earth and the birds of the air.
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.
'I would do it with pleasure, answered the idiot, 'but if I once open the bag they will all fly away. 'Well, open it wide enough for me to look in, said the lion, drawing a little nearer. Now this was just what Peronnik had been hoping for, so he held the bag while the lion opened it carefully and put his head right inside, so that he might get a good mouthful of larks.
Then he added aloud: Colt, free to run and free to eat. Colt, gallop fast until we meet, and instantly the colt appeared, frisking and jumping to the wizard, who threw a halter over his neck and leapt on his back. Peronnik kept silence at the farm about this adventure, but he understood very well that if he was ever to get to Kerglas he must first catch the colt which knew the way.
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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