I want a boy to tend my cattle , ' he said abruptly , ` as the one I had has run away . Will you stay and do it ? ' and Peronnik , though he loved his liberty and hated work , recollected the good food he had eaten , and agreed to stop . At sunrise he collected his herd carefully and led them to the rich pasture which lay along the borders of the forest , cutting himself a hazel wand with which to keep them in order . His task was not quite so easy as it looked , for the cows had a way of straying into the wood , and by the time he had brought one back another was off . He had gone some distance into the trees , after a naughty black cow which gave him more trouble than all the rest , when he heard the noise of horse 's feet , and peeping through the leaves he beheld the giant Rogear seated on his mare , with the colt trotting behind . Round the giant 's neck hung the golden bowl suspended from a chain , and in his hand he grasped the diamond lance , which gleamed like fire . But as soon as he was out of sight the idiot sought in vain for traces of the path he had taken . This happened not only once but many times , till Peronnik grew so used to him that he never troubled to hide . But on each occasion he saw him the desire to possess the bowl and the lance became stronger . One evening the boy was sitting alone on the edge of the forest , when a man with a white beard stopped beside him . ` Do you want to know the way to Kerglas ? ' asked the idiot , and the man answered ' I know it well . ' ` You have been there without being killed by the magician ? ' cried Peronnik . ` Oh ! he had nothing to fear from me , ' replied the white-bearded man , ' I am Rogear 's elder brother , the wizard Bryak . When I wish to visit him I always pass this way , and as even I can not go through the enchanted wood without losing myself , I call the colt to guide me . ' Stooping down as he spoke he traced three circles on the ground and murmured some words very low , which Peronnik could not hear . Then he added aloud : Colt , free to run and free to eat .
Colt , gallop fast until we meet , and instantly the colt appeared , frisking and jumping to the wizard , who threw a halter over his neck and leapt XXXXX his back .
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