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Updated: June 19, 2025
But Ranier whispered to himself, "I want me this braggart hewn to pieces, and then the rest beaten;" and added, aloud: "Ax! ax! chop! chop! and work for my profit!" Whereupon the ax leapt forward, and dealt such a blow upon Sir Paul that it pierced through his helmet, and clave him to the saddle.
Striding along beneath the branches of the great oaks and chestnuts, he began to reflect upon the hard fate which seemed to doom him to toil and wretchedness, and, thus thinking, whistled no longer. Presently he sat down upon a moss-covered rock, and laying his ax by his side, let his thoughts shape themselves into words. "This is a sad life of mine," said Ranier.
Though you have saved my life and vanquished my enemies, yet you are not of noble birth, nor, were you so, could you build such a castle in such a space of time." "I am of noble blood, nevertheless," said Ranier, proudly, "although I have been a wood-chopper.
"Excuse me, my lord," suggested Ranier, "but the work has been done in two days instead of thirty; and twenty-eight days off at a hundred nobles per day makes twenty-two thousand eight hundred nobles as my due." "True," replied the ranger; "and if you want money now " "Oh no!" interrupted Ranier, "I have three groats in my purse, and ten more at home, which will be quite sufficient for my needs."
How did you contrive to fell them so soon?" "I had assistance, my lord," replied Ranier; but he said nothing about the magic ax. Lord Woodmount hereupon entered into conversation with Ranier, and finding him to be intelligent and prompt in his replies, was much pleased with him.
As for the ax, that is lost, somehow, and although I have made diligent inquiry, I have never been able to find where it is. Some people think the fairy took it after King Ranier died, and hid it again in a tree; and I recommend all wood-choppers to look at the heart of every tree they fell, for this wonderful ax.
"Look at your ax," returned the fairy. "Do you not see that the back of the blade is shaped like a hammer?" So she taught Ranier what words to use, and vanished. When the sun was down, Ranier came to the court-yard, and raising his ax with the blade upward, he said aloud: "Ax! ax! hammer! hammer! and build for my profit!"
As he had not worn spurs, he was not yet a knight. Guy entered the lists and met and conquered Prince Philaner, the Emperor's son, Duke Otto, Duke Ranier, and Duke Louvain. Guy took the prize offered with the exception of the hand of Blanche. "For my fair Phyllis alone I keep my love," he said. Guy went back to England and heard that a terrible dun-colored cow had appeared in Warwickshire.
At the same time he wired the Ranier people requesting them to be ready to furnish cargo to the Retriever the following day this on the strength of a telegram from Matt Peasley received the previous day informing his owners that he was discharged and awaiting orders.
Ranier knew that the Lady Zanthe was the favorite maiden of the princess, and, as we are easily persuaded in the way our inclinations run, he took heart and determined to act upon Dyvorer's counsel. About a week afterward, as the king was walking in the court-yard of his palace, as he did at times, he met with Ranier.
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