Give me the rod ' ; and he touched the fox with it , and in a moment it was turned into stone . Then he knew that the old woman was a witch , and he turned to her and said : ` Unless you restore my brothers and their beasts back to life at once , my lion will tear you in pieces . ' Then the witch was terrified , and taking a young oak tree she burnt it into white ashes , and sprinkled the ashes on the stones that stood around . And in a moment the two princes stood before their brother , and their beasts stood round them . Then the three princes set off together to the town . And the king did not know which was his son-in-law , but the princess knew which was her husband , and there were great rejoicings throughout the land . THE GOAT 'S EARS OF THE EMPEROR TROJAN Once upon a time there lived an emperor whose name was Trojan , and he had ears like a goat . Every morning , when he was shaved , he asked if the man saw anything odd about him , and as each fresh barber always replied that the emperor had goat 's ears , he was at once ordered to be put to death . Now after this state of things had lasted a good while , there was hardly a barber left in the town that could shave the emperor , and it came to be the turn of the Master of the Company of Barbers to go up to the palace . But , unluckily , at the very moment that he should have set out , the master fell suddenly ill , and told one of his apprentices that he must go in his stead . When the youth was taken to the emperor 's bedroom , he was asked why he had come and not his master . The young man replied that the master was ill , and there was no one but himself who could be trusted with the honour . The emperor was satisfied with the answer , and sat down , and let a sheet of fine linen be put round him . Directly the young barber began his work , he , like the rest , remarked the goat 's ears of the emperor , but when he had finished and the emperor asked his usual question as to whether the youth had noticed anything odd about him , the young man replied calmly , ` No , nothing at all . ' This pleased the emperor so much that he gave him twelve ducats , and said , ` Henceforth you shall come every day to shave me . ' So when the apprentice returned home , and the master inquired how he had got on with the emperor , the young man answered , ` Oh , very well , and he says I am to shave him every day , and he has given me these twelve ducats ' ; but he said nothing about the goat 's ears of the emperor . From this time the apprentice went regularly up to the palace , receiving each morning twelve ducats in payment . But after a while , his secret , which he had carefully kept , burnt within him , and he longed to tell it to somebody . His master saw there was something on his mind , and asked what it was . The youth replied that he had been tormenting himself for some months , and should never feel easy until some one shared his secret .
` Well , trust me , ' said the master , ' I will keep it to myself ; or , if you do not like to do that , confess it XXXXX your pastor , or go into some field outside the town and dig a hole , and , after you have dug it , kneel down and whisper your secret three times into the hole .
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