She ought to be just as much my Princess as she is yours now , for you are a man of your word , ' said the youth . ` Yes , yes , ' said the King . ` Have her thou shalt , as I have said it ; but first of all thou must make the sun shine into my palace here . ' For there was a large and high hill outside the windows which overshadowed the palace so much that the sun could not shine in . ` That was no part of our bargain , ' answered the youth . ` But as nothing that I can say will move you , I suppose I shall have to try to do my best , for the Princess I will have . ' So he went down to Dapplegrim again and told him what the King desired , and Dapplegrim thought that it might easily be done ; but first of all he must have new shoes , and ten pounds of iron and twelve pounds of steel must go to the making of them , and two smiths were also necessary , one to hammer and one to hold , and then it would be very easy to make the sun shine into the King 's palace . The lad asked for these things and obtained them instantly , for the King thought that for very shame he could not refuse to give them , and so Dapplegrim got new shoes , and they were good ones . The youth seated himself on him , and once more they went their way , and for each hop that Dapplegrim made , down went the hill fifteen ells into the earth , and so they went on until there was no hill left for the King to see . When the youth came down again to the King 's palace he asked the King if the Princess should not at last be his , for now no one could say that the sun was not shining into the palace . But the other people in the palace had again stirred up the King , and he answered that the youth should have her , and that he had never intended that he should not ; but first of all he must get her quite as good a horse to ride to the wedding on as that which he had himself . The youth said that the King had never told him he was to do that , and it seemed to him that he had now really earned the Princess ; but the King stuck to what he had said , and if the youth were unable to do it he was to lose his life , the King said . The youth went down to the stable again , and very sad and sorrowful he was , as anyone may well imagine . Then he told Dapplegrim that the King had now required that he should get the Princess as good a bridal horse as that which the bridegroom had , or he should lose his life . ` But that will be no easy thing to do , ' said he , ` for your equal is not to be found in all the world . ' ` Oh yes , there is one to match me , ' said Dapplegrim . ` But it will not be easy to get him , for he is underground . However , we will try . Now you must go up to the King and ask for new shoes for me , and for them we must again have ten pounds of iron , twelve pounds of steel , and two smiths , one to hammer and one to hold , but be very particular to see that the hooks are very sharp . And you must also ask for twelve barrels of rye , and twelve slaughtered oxen must we have with us , and all the twelve ox-hides with twelve hundred spikes set in each of them ; all these things must we have , likewise a barrel of tar with twelve tons of tar in it .
The youth went to the King and asked XXXXX all the things that Dapplegrim had named , and once more , as the King thought that it would be disgraceful to refuse them to him , he obtained them all .
as at for if in on that to up with