then the young king was cut to the heart, and went, day out day in, thinking and thinking how he should get back to his queen. "i'll just try," he thought, "if i can't learn where whiteland lies;" and so he went out into the world to ask. so when he had gone a good way, he came to a high hill, and there he met one who was lord over all the beasts of the wood, for they all came home to him when he blew his horn; so the king asked if he knew where whiteland was.