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The king then went and sent his lads to the hunting-hill for a he-goat, and he gave its heart and its liver to his wife to eat; and she rose well and healthy. A year after this Silver-tree went to the glen, where there was the well in which there was the trout. "Troutie, bonny little fellow," said she, "am not I the most beautiful queen in the world?" "Oh! indeed you are not." "Who then?"

At the end of the year, Silver-tree went to the glen, where there was the well, in which there was the trout. "Troutie, bonny little fellow," said she, "am not I the most beautiful queen in the world?" "Oh! indeed you are not." "Who then?" "Why, Gold-tree, your daughter." "Oh! well, she is not alive. It is a year since I put the poisoned stab into her finger."

And the trout, furious and indignant, but not in the least frightened, trying vainly to get back to the old root. Was there ever such a fish? But the Major is the best man, for after ten minutes troutie is towed up on his side to a convenient shallow, and the Vicar puts on his spectacles to see him brought ashore.

Once upon a time there was a king who had a wife, whose name was Silver-tree, and a daughter, whose name was Gold-tree. On a certain day of the days, Gold-tree and Silver-tree went to a glen, where there was a well, and in it there was a trout. Said Silver-tree, "Troutie, bonny little fellow, am not I the most beautiful queen in the world?" "Oh! indeed you are not." "Who then?"