` As if I did not know it , when I have seen it with my own eyes . ' ` Then if you do not want us to avenge our dead flocks and our murdered wives , you will have to throw us into the river just over the place of the horse fair . ' ` Very well ; only you must get three sacks and come with me to that rock which juts into the river . I will throw you in from there , and you will fall nearly on to the horses ' backs . ' So he threw them in , and as they were never seen again , no one ever knew into which fair they had fallen . From ` Litterature Orale de L'Auvergne , ' par Paul Sebillot . The Brown Bear of Norway There was once a king in Ireland , and he had three daughters , and very nice princesses they were . And one day , when they and their father were walking on the lawn , the king began to joke with them , and to ask them whom they would like to be married to . ` I 'll have the king of Ulster for a husband , ' says one ; ` and I 'll have the king of Munster , ' says another ; ` and , ' says the youngest , ` I 'll have no husband but the Brown Bear of Norway . ' For a nurse of hers used to be telling her of an enchanted prince that she called by that name , and she fell in love with him , and his name was the first name on her tongue , for the very night before she was dreaming of him . Well , one laughed , and another laughed , and they joked with the princess all the rest of the evening . But that very night she woke up out of her sleep in a great hall that was lighted up with a thousand lamps ; the richest carpets were on the floor , and the walls were covered with cloth of gold and silver , and the place was full of grand company , and the very beautiful prince she saw in her dreams was there , and it was n't a moment till he was on one knee before her , and telling her how much he loved her , and asking her would n't she be his queen . Well , she had n't the heart to refuse him , and married they were the same evening . ` Now , my darling , ' says he , when they were left by themselves , ` you must know that I am under enchantment . A sorceress , that had a beautiful daughter , wished me for her son-in-law ; but the mother got power over me , and when I refused to wed her daughter she made me take the form of a bear by day , and I was to continue so till a lady would marry me of her own free will , and endure five years of great trials after . ' Well , when the princess woke in the morning , she missed her husband from her side , and spent the day very sadly . But as soon as the lamps were lighted in the grand hall , where she was sitting on a sofa covered with silk , the folding doors flew open , and he was sitting by her side the next minute . So they spent another happy evening , but he warned her that whenever she began to tire of him , or ceased to have faith in him , they would be parted for ever , and he 'd be obliged to marry the witch 's daughter . She got used to find him absent by day , and they spent a happy twelvemonth together , and at last a beautiful little boy was born ; and happy as she was before , she was twice as happy now , for she had her child to keep her company in the day when she could n't see her husband . At last , one evening , when herself , and himself , and her child were sitting with a window open because it was a sultry night , in flew an eagle , took the infant 's sash in his beak , and flew up in the air with him .
She screamed , and was going to throw herself out the window XXXXX him , but the prince caught her , and looked at her very seriously .
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