FAIRY TALES 225 same hour, go to the pasture and claim as yonr own whatever you find there." The boy did as the dream told him. He ate his breakfast, and then his dinner, and then he went to the pasture and left the belt. The next day at the very same hour, he went back to the place where he had left the belt. "What was his surprise to see standing beside the belt a great beautiful white bull! It was the most beautiful animal he had ever seen. He led it away to his home. Soon the news of this wonderful bull spread far and wide. Not far off in a city there lived a king, who owned a bull. He was very proud of this animal, and when he heard that there ivas another bull as wonderful as his own he was angry. "Who is the owner of this wonderful bull?" he asked. "A cattle-doctor," they said, "and he has such skill that the cattle always get well when he gives them his wonderful medicine." "I must see this wonderful bull," said the king; so he sent messengers to the cattle-doctor. "The king would like to see your beautiful bull," the messengers said. So the boy went to the city with his bull. On the way he told the bull where they were going. When the king saw the wonderful creature he was so pleased that he wished to buy it.