In the meantime the smith had carried the cap to the castle , and bade a servant belonging to the knight 's youngest daughter bear it to her mistress . But when the girl 's eyes fell on it , she cried out : ` He speaks false ; and if he does not bring me the man who really made the cap I will hang him on the tree beside my window . ' The servant was filled with fear at her words , and hastened and told the smith , who ran as fast as he could to seek for Ian . And when he found him and brought him into the castle , the girl was first struck dumb with joy ; then she declared that she would marry nobody else . At this some one fetched to her the knight of Grianaig , and when Ian had told his tale , he vowed that the maiden was right , and that his elder daughters should never wed with men who had not only taken glory to themselves which did not belong to them , but had left the real doer of the deeds to his fate . And the wedding guests said that the knight had spoken well ; and the two elder brothers were fain to leave the country , for no one would converse with them . The Fox and the Wolf -LSB- From Tales of the West Highlands . -RSB- At the foot of some high mountains there was , once upon a time , a small village , and a little way off two roads met , one of them going to the east and the other to the west . The villagers were quiet , hard-working folk , who toiled in the fields all day , and in the evening set out for home when the bell began to ring in the little church . In the summer mornings they led out their flocks to pasture , and were happy and contented from sunrise to sunset . One summer night , when a round full moon shone down upon the white road , a great wolf came trotting round the corner . ' I positively must get a good meal before I go back to my den , ' he said to himself ; ` it is nearly a week since I have tasted anything but scraps , though perhaps no one would think it to look at my figure ! Of course there are plenty of rabbits and hares in the mountains ; but indeed one needs to be a greyhound to catch them , and I am not so young as I was ! If I could only dine off that fox I saw a fortnight ago , curled up into a delicious hairy ball , I should ask nothing better ; I would have eaten her then , but unluckily her husband was lying beside her , and one knows that foxes , great and small , run like the wind . Really it seems as if there was not a living creature left for me to prey upon but a wolf , and , as the proverb says : `` One wolf does not bite another . '' However , let us see what this village can produce . I am as hungry as a schoolmaster . ' Now , while these thoughts were running through the mind of the wolf , the very fox he had been thinking of was galloping along the other road . ` The whole of this day I have listened to those village hens clucking till I could bear it no longer , ' murmured she as she bounded along , hardly seeming to touch the ground . ` When you are fond of fowls and eggs it is the sweetest of all music .
As sure as there is a sun in heaven I will have some of them this night , for I have grown so thin XXXXX my very bones rattle , and my poor babies are crying for food . '
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