212 GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES

Visible. Then he took off his own shoes, and put on the shoes of swiftness, and grasped the sword in his hand.

The robbers stood just as the prince had told them, and at sunset they turned to see how he had divided the spoils; when, what was their surprise to find that no prince was to be seen,- and there was no magical coat, or shoes, or sword!

When the prince had taken the sword, he wished the shoes to carry him to the door of his eldest sister’s house. He had no sooner made this wish then he felt himself being carried through the air, and as though in an instant, he stood in front of a large, beautiful mansion. He knocked, and at once a woman opened the door. The prince knew that she was his eldest sister, whom he was seeking.

“I am your brother,” he said; “I have been seeking you.”

“But you cannot be my brother,” she replied; “for I have no brother.”

But when the prince began to tell her about her father, the king, and how her two younger sisters had been sold for gold, and how he had been born years afterward, and how he had now come in search of his sisters, she knew that what he said was true, and welcomed him gladly.

“But where is your husband?” he asked.

“He is out fishing,” said the sister; “he