` That , too , was not in our bargain , ' said the youth . ` But we will make this trial since it must be so . ' So the King 's daughter was to hide herself first . Then she changed herself into a duck , and lay swimming in a lake that was just outside the palace . But the youth went down into the stable and asked Dapplegrim what she had done with herself . ` Oh , all that you have to do is to take your gun , and go down to the water and aim at the duck which is swimming about there , and she will soon discover herself , ' said Dapplegrim . The youth snatched up his gun and ran to the lake . ' I will just have a shot at that duck , ' said he , and began to aim at it . ` Oh , no , dear friend , do n't shoot ! It is I , ' said the Princess . So he had found her once . The second time the Princess changed herself into a loaf , and laid herself on the table among four other loaves ; and she was so like the other loaves that no one could see any difference between them . But the youth again went down to the stable to Dapplegrim , and told him that the Princess had hidden herself again , and that he had not the least idea what had become of her . ` Oh , just take a very large bread-knife , sharpen it , and pretend that you are going to cut straight through the third of the four loaves which are lying on the kitchen table in the King 's palace -- count them from right to left -- and you will soon find her , ' said Dapplegrim . So the youth went up to the kitchen , and began to sharpen the largest bread-knife that he could find ; then he caught hold of the third loaf on the left-hand side , and put the knife to it as if he meant to cut it straight in two . ' I will have a bit of this bread for myself , ' said he . ` No , dear friend , do n't cut , it is I ! ' said the Princess again ; so he had found her the second time . And now it was his turn to go and hide himself ; but Dapplegrim had given him such good instructions that it was not easy to find him . First he turned himself into a horse-fly , and hid himself in Dapplegrim 's left nostril .
The Princess went poking about and searching everywhere , high and low , and wanted to go into XXXXX 's stall too , but he began to bite and kick about so that she was afraid to go there , and could not find the youth .
Dapplegrim First King Princess bread-knife left loaf one second third