cried Rosette , ` he must be wicked , since he tried to drown me . Do n't let us tell him , but if you have a little basket give it to me . ' The old man gave her a basket , and tying it round Frisk 's neck she said to him : ` Go and find out the best cooking-pot in the town and bring the contents to me . ' Away went Frisk , and as there was no better dinner cooking in all the town than the King 's , he adroitly took the cover off the pot and brought all it contained to the Princess , who said : ` Now go back to the pantry , and bring the best of everything you find there . ' So Frisk went back and filled his basket with white bread , and red wine , and every kind of sweetmeat , until it was almost too heavy for him to carry . When the King of the Peacocks wanted his dinner there was nothing in the pot and nothing in the pantry . All the courtiers looked at one another in dismay , and the King was terribly cross . ` Oh well ! ` he said , ` if there is no dinner I can not dine , but take care that plenty of things are roasted for supper . ' When evening came the Princess said to Frisk : ` Go into the town and find out the best kitchen , and bring me all the nicest morsels that are being roasted upon the spit . ' Frisk did as he was told , and as he knew of no better kitchen than the King 's , he went in softly , and when the cook 's back was turned took everything that was upon the spit , As it happened it was all done to a turn , and looked so good that it made him hungry only to see it . He carried his basket to the Princess , who at once sent him back to the pantry to bring all the tarts and sugar plums that had been prepared for the King 's supper . The King , as he had had no dinner , was very hungry and wanted his supper early , but when he asked for it , lo and behold it was all gone , and he had to go to bed half-starved and in a terrible temper . The next day the same thing happened , and the next , so that for three days the King got nothing at all to eat , because just when the dinner or the supper was ready to be served it mysteriously disappeared . At last the Prime Minister began to be afraid that the King would be starved to death , so he resolved to hide himself in some dark corner of the kitchen , and never take his eyes off the cooking-pot . His surprise was great when he presently saw a little green dog with one ear slip softly into the kitchen , uncover the pot , transfer all its contents to his basket , and run off . The Prime Minister followed hastily , and tracked him all through the town to the cottage of the good old man ; then he ran back to the King and told him that he had found out where all his dinners and suppers went . The King , who was very much astonished , said he should like to go and see for himself . So he set out , accompanied by the Prime Minister and a guard of archers , and arrived just in time to find the old man and the Princess finishing his dinner . The King ordered that they should be seized and bound with ropes , and Frisk also .
When they were brought back to the palace some one told the King , who said : ` To-day is the last day of the respite granted to those impostors ; they shall have their heads cut off at the same time XXXXX these stealers of my dinner . '
So as by for in into of to until upon