One day she was seated in her room , playing on her favourite musical instrument , when she felt something gliding up her sash , and saw her enemy making his way to kiss her cheek . She shrieked and threw herself backwards , and Gon , who had been curled up on a stool at her feet , understood her terror , and with one bound seized the snake by his neck . He gave him one bite and one shake , and flung him on the ground , where he lay , never to worry the princess any more . Then she took Gon in her arms , and praised and caressed him , and saw that he had the nicest bits to eat , and the softest mats to lie on ; and he would have had nothing in the world to wish for if only he could have seen Koma again . Time passed on , and one morning Gon lay before the house door , basking in the sun . He looked lazily at the world stretched out before him , and saw in the distance a big ruffian of a cat teasing and ill-treating quite a little one . He jumped up , full of rage , and chased away the big cat , and then he turned to comfort the little one , when his heart nearly burst with joy to find that it was Koma . At first Koma did not know him again , he had grown so large and stately ; but when it dawned upon her who it was , her happiness knew no bounds . And they rubbed their heads and their noses again and again , while their purring might have been heard a mile off . Paw in paw they appeared before the princess , and told her the story of their life and its sorrows . The princess wept for sympathy , and promised that they should never more be parted , but should live with her to the end of their days . By-and-bye the princess herself got married , and brought a prince to dwell in the palace in the park . And she told him all about her two cats , and how brave Gon had been , and how he had delivered her from her enemy the serpent . And when the prince heard , he swore they should never leave them , but should go with the princess wherever she went . So it all fell out as the princess wished ; and Gon and Koma had many children , and so had the princess , and they all played together , and were friends to the end of their lives . How the Dragon Was Tricked From Griechtsche und Albanesische Marchen , von J. G. von Hahn . -LRB- Leipzig : Engelmann . 1864 . -RRB- Once upon a time there lived a man who had two sons but they did not get on at all well together , for the younger was much handsomer than his elder brother who was very jealous of him . When they grew older , things became worse and worse , and at last one day as they were walking through a wood the elder youth seized hold of the other , tied him to a tree , and went on his way hoping that the boy might starve to death .
However , it happened that an old and humpbacked shepherd passed the tree XXXXX his flock , and seeing the prisoner , he stopped and said to him , ` Tell me , my son why are you tied to that tree ? '
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