` If you ca n't , I think your daughter is mine . ' The King went and looked at both the dappled horses ; he looked high and he looked low , he looked before and he looked behind , but there was not a hair 's difference between the two . ` No , ' said the King ; ` that I can not tell thee , and as thou hast procured such a splendid bridal horse for my daughter thou shalt have her ; but first we must have one more trial , just to see if thou art fated to have her . She shall hide herself twice , and then thou shalt hide thyself twice . If thou canst find her each time that she hides herself , and if she can not find thee in thy hiding-places , then it is fated , and thou shalt have the Princess . ' ` 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 . '
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