a little while after, the prince decided that he might now go journeying again in search of a princess. and off he drove in the royal chariot with the six white horses. but at the first cross-ways, there lay the lindworm, crying with his great wide open mouth, "a bride for me before a bride for you!" so the carriage tried another road, and the same thing happened, and they had to turn back again this time, just as formerly. and the king wrote to several foreign countries, to know if anyone would marry his son. at last another princess arrived, this time from a very far distant land. and, of course, she was not allowed to see her future husband before the wedding took place, and then, lo and behold! it was the lindworm who stood at her side. and next morning the princess had disappeared: