'Lie down and go to sleep; I will work for you.' And in the morning he awoke and the hill was gone; so he went merrily to the king, and told him that now that it was removed he must give him the princess.
Then the king was obliged to keep his word, and away went the young man and the princess; and the fox came and said to him, 'We will have all three, the princess, the horse, and the bird.' 'Ah!' said the young man, 'that would be a great thing, but how can you contrive it?'
When they had brought the things as he told them, Telemachus
went on board, Minerva going before him and taking her seat in the stern of the vessel, while Telemachus sat beside her.
Then the youths rose from the table, went back to the great stone fountain, turned themselves into eagles again, and flew away.
Then the old man went away too, returned to the light of day, and went home.
So we slept all day amongst the cottonwood thicket, so as to be fresh for the work, and when we went back to the raft about dark the canoe was gone!
But we didn't see no rafts laying up; so we went along during three hours and more.
However, it was her advice that I should not venture again, and I took her counsel, for I never went there any more; for I knew as well as she, if the itch of play came in, I might soon lose that, and all the rest of what I had got.
I had sometime taken the liberty to play the same game over again, which is not according to practice, which however succeeded not amiss; but generally I took up new figures, and contrived to appear in new shapes every time I went abroad.
At last I give in, and went and took a look myself; and it was just as Tom said--there wasn't a sign of a corpse.
We went back home to breakfast ever so bothered and put out and disappointed and swindled.
So we
went to the high- level platform, and saw the engine-driver, and asked him if he was going to Kingston.