Of course , Jegu was only too pleased to be able to do anything for the brownie , and he ordered Barbaik to spread her best table-cloths in the barn , and to make a quantity of little loaves and pancakes , and , besides , to keep all the milk given by the cows that morning . He expected she would refuse , as he knew she hated the dwarfs , but she said nothing , and prepared the supper as he had bidden her . When all was ready , the dwarfs , in new green suits , came bustling in , very happy and merry , and took their seats at the table . But in a moment they all sprang up with a cry , and ran away screaming , for Barbaik had placed pans of hot coals under their feet , and all their poor little toes were burnt . ` You wo n't forget that in a hurry , ' she said , smiling grimly to herself , but in a moment they were back again with large pots of water , which they poured on the fire . Then they joined hands and danced round it , singing : Wicked traitress , Barne Riou , Our poor toes are burned by you ; Now we hurry from your hall -- Bad luck light upon you all . That evening they left the country for ever , and Jegu , without their help , grew poorer and poorer , and at last died of misery , while Barbaik was glad to find work in the market of Morlaix . From ` Le Foyer Breton , ' par E. Souvestre . The Winning of Olwen There was once a king and queen who had a little boy , and they called his name Kilweh . The queen , his mother , fell ill soon after his birth , and as she could not take care of him herself she sent him to a woman she knew up in the mountains , so that he might learn to go out in all weathers , and bear heat and cold , and grow tall and strong . Kilweh was quite happy with his nurse , and ran races and climbed hills with the children who were his playfellows , and in the winter , when the snow lay on the ground , sometimes a man with a harp would stop and beg for shelter , and in return would sing them songs of strange things that had happened in the years gone by . But long before this changes had taken place in the court of Kilweh 's father . Soon after she had sent her baby away the queen became much worse , and at length , seeing that she was going to die , she called her husband to her and said : ` Never again shall I rise from this bed , and by and bye thou wilt take another wife . But lest she should make thee forget thy son , I charge thee that thou take not a wife until thou see a briar with two blossoms upon my grave . ' And this he promised her . Then she further bade him to see to her grave that nothing might grow thereon . This likewise he promised her , and soon she died , and for seven years the king sent a man every morning to see that nothing was growing on the queen 's grave , but at the end of seven years he forgot . One day when the king was out hunting he rode past the place where the queen lay buried , and there he saw a briar growing with two blossoms on it . ` It is time that I took a wife , ' said he , and after long looking he found one . But he did not tell her about his son ; indeed he hardly remembered that he had one till she heard it at last from an old woman whom she had gone to visit .
And the new queen was very pleased , and sent messengers to fetch the boy , and XXXXX his father 's court he stayed , while the years went by till one day the queen told him that a prophecy had foretold that he was to win for his wife Olwen the daughter of Yspaddaden Penkawr .
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