Oldal 283 [283]
; THE KNAPSACK, THE HAT, AND THE HORN. 227
; to manage it. ‘Then it struck her that perhaps all his wonder¬
. working power lay in the knapsack, and she pretended to be
" very fond of him, and when she had brought him into a good
+ humour she said, —" Pray lay aside that ugly knapsack; it
. misbecomes you so much that I feel ashamed of you.”
“My dear child,” answered he, "this knapsack is my
+ greatest treasure ; so long as I keep it I need not fear anything
in the whole world,” and then he showed her with what
- wonderful qualities it was endowed. Then she fell on his
neck as if she would have kissed him, but, by a clever trick,
she slipped the knapsack over his shoulder and ran away with
‘jit. As soon as she was alone she struck upon it and sum¬
‘moned the soldiers, and bade them seize her husband and
‘bring him to the king’s palace. ‘They obeyed, and the false
‘woman had many more to follow behind, so as to be ready to
drive him out of the country. He would have been quite
‘done for if he had not still kept the hat. As soon as he could
get his hands free he pulled it twice forward on his head ; and
‘then the cannon began to thunder and beat all down, till at
last the king’s daughter had to come and to beg pardon.
"And as she so movingly prayed and promised to behave
better, he raised her up and made peace with her. ‘Then she
grew very kind to him, and seemed to love him very much,
and he grew so deluded, that one day he confided to her that
even if he were deprived of his knapsack nothing could be
. done against him as long as he should keep the old hat. And
. when she knew the secret she waited until he had gone to
sleep; then she carried off the hat, and had him driven out
into the streets. Still the horn remained to him, and in great
wrath he blew a great blast upon it, and down came walls and
. fortresses, towns and villages, and buried the king and his
. daughter among their ruins. If he had not set down the horn
. when he did, and if he had blown a little longer, all the houses
would have tumbled down, and there would not have been left
. one stone upon another. After this no one dared to withstand
him, and he made himself king over the whole country.