After this the Giant accompanied him down to the sea , where he saw a stone boat which was just big enough to hold the two of them and the Dog . On reaching the mainland the Giant took a friendly farewell of Ring , and told him he might take possession of all that was in the island after he and his wife died , which would happen within two weeks from that time . The Prince thanked him for this and for all his other kindnesses , and the Giant returned home , while Ring went up some distance from the sea ; but he did not know what land he had come to , and was afraid to speak to the Dog . After he had walked on in silence for a time the Dog spoke to him and said : ` You do n't seem to have much curiosity , seeing you never ask my name . ' The Prince then forced himself to ask , ` What is your name ? ' ` You had best call me Snati-Snati , ' said the Dog . ` Now we are coming to a King 's seat , and you must ask the King to keep us all winter , and to give you a little room for both of us . ' The Prince now began to be less afraid of the Dog . They came to the King and asked him to keep them all the winter , to which he agreed . When the King 's men saw the Dog they began to laugh at it , and make as if they would tease it ; but when the Prince saw this he advised them not to do it , or they might have the worst of it . They replied that they did n't care a bit what he thought . After Ring had been with the King for some days the latter began to think there was a great deal in him , and esteemed him more than the others . The King , however , had a counsellor called Red , who became very jealous when he saw how much the King esteemed Ring ; and one day he talked to him , and said he could not understand why he had so good an opinion of this stranger , who had not yet shown himself superior to other men in anything . The King replied that it was only a short time since he had come there . Red then asked him to send them both to cut down wood next morning , and see which of them could do most work . Snati-Snati heard this and told it to Ring , advising him to ask the King for two axes , so that he might have one in reserve if the first one got broken . Next morning the King asked Ring and Red to go and cut down trees for him , and both agreed . Ring got the two axes , and each went his own way ; but when the Prince had got out into the wood Snati took one of the axes and began to hew along with him . In the evening the King came to look over their day 's work , as Red had proposed , and found that Ring 's wood-heap was more than twice as big . ' I suspected , ' said the King , ` that Ring was not quite useless ; never have I seen such a day 's work . '
Ring was now in far greater esteem with the King XXXXX before , and Red was all the more discontented .
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