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208 GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES
went out to meet the stranger. The stranger
was waiting for them with a cart full of gold
as he had promised. Soon the king was has
tening home with his money, and the beautiful
princess was taken away, no one knew where.
Now this cart full of gold did not last the
king even as long as the other had. And very
soon he was out in the fields again, wondering
what he could do. For by this time he could
think of nothing but his wine.
Again, as before, a stranger stood before him.
He was as well dressed and as pleasing as the
others.
"Will
you give me your youngest daughter
for my wife?" he asked the king.
"Yes,"
said the king at once,
"if
you will
give me a cart full of gold."
said the "I will," stranger,
"on one condition.
You must promise that you will not ask where
I am going to take her. Come to this spot in
the morning with your daughter, and I will be
here with the cart full of gold."
Early the next morning the king hurried out
to the field with his youngest daughter, the
most beautiful daughter of all. The queen
begged of him to leave her this one daughter;
but the king was so eager for gold, with which
he could buy wine, that he would not listen to
her pleadings.
When the king reached the field with his