Yes ! there was no mistaking it , and the Queen and Percinet were coming to meet her . ` Ah , Princess ! ' said the Queen , ` do n't keep this poor Percinet in suspense any longer . You little guess the anxiety he has suffered while you were in the power of that miserable Queen . ' The Princess kissed her gratefully , and promised to do as she wished in everything , and holding out her hand to Percinet , with a smile , she said : ` Do you remember telling me that I should not see your palace again until I had been buried ? I wonder if you guessed then that , when that happened , I should tell you that I love you with all my heart , and will marry you whenever you like ? ' Prince Percinet joyfully took the hand that was given him , and , for fear the Princess should change her mind , the wedding was held at once with the greatest splendour , and Graciosa and Percinet lived happily ever after . -LRB- 11 -RRB- -LRB- 11 -RRB- Gracieuse et Percinet . Mdme . d'Aulnoy . THE THREE PRINCESSES OF WHITELAND THERE was once upon a time a fisherman , who lived hard by a palace and fished for the King 's table . One day he was out fishing , but caught nothing at all . Let him do what he might with rod and line , there was never even so much as a sprat on his hook ; but when the day was well nigh over , a head rose up out of the water , and said : ` If you will give me what your wife shows you when you go home , you shall catch fish enough . ' So the man said ` Yes ' in a moment , and then he caught fish in plenty ; but when he got home at night , and his wife showed him a baby which had just been born , and fell a-weeping and wailing when he told her of the promise which he had given , he was very unhappy . All this was soon told to the King up at the palace , and when he heard what sorrow the woman was in , and the reason of it , he said that he himself would take the child and see if he could not save it . The baby was a boy , and the King took him at once and brought him up as his own son until the lad grew up . Then one day he begged to have leave to go out with his father to fish ; he had a strong desire to do this , he said . The King was very unwilling to permit it , but at last the lad got leave . He stayed with his father , and all went prosperously and well with them the whole day , until they came back to land in the evening .
Then the lad found that he had lost his pocket-handkerchief , and would go out in the boat after it ; but no sooner had he got into the boat than it began to move off XXXXX him so quickly that the water foamed all round about , and all that the lad did to keep the boat back with the oars was done to no purpose , for it went on and on the whole night through , and at last he came to a white strand that lay far , far away .
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