'
The farmer said he must first ask his wife, and returned home, taking
several bricks with him, to throw into the river and make the stream
divide.
His wife would not at first agree to live in the Crocodile Kingdom,
but she consented to go there on a visit, and afterwards became so
fond of the beautiful river country that she was constantly going to
see her daughter the Queen; till at length the old couple never
returned to shore, but lived altogether in Crocodile Kingdom with
their son-in-law, the King of the Crocodiles.
LITTLE ANKLEBONE
Once upon a time there was a little boy who lost his parents; so he
went to live with his Auntie, and she set him to herd sheep. All day
long the little fellow wandered barefoot through the pathless plain,
tending his flock, and playing his tiny shepherd's pipe from morn till
eve.
But one day came a great big wolf, and looked hungrily at the small
shepherd and his fat sheep, saying, 'Little boy! shall I eat you, or
your sheep?' Then the little boy answered politely, 'I don't know,
Mr. Wolf; I must ask my Auntie.'
So all day long he piped away on his tiny pipe, and in the evening,
when he brought the flock home, he went to his Auntie and said,
'Auntie dear, a great big wolf asked me to-day if he should eat me, or
your sheep.
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