` But perhaps you do n't know that beneath this world there lies another yet more beautiful and far , far richer . Well , it was there that you sent me when you flung me into the river , and though I felt a little strange at first , yet I soon began to look about me , and to see what was happening . There I noticed that close to the place where I had fallen , a sheep fair was being held , and a bystander told me that every day horses or cattle were sold somewhere in the town . If I had only had the luck to be thrown into the river on the side of the horse fair I might have made my fortune ! As it was , I had to content myself with buying these sheep , which you can get for nothing . ' ` And do you know exactly the spot in the river which lies over the horse fair ? ' ` 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 XXXXX 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 . '
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