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When he found himself safe, he was overjoyed to think that he had

got the Water of Life; and as he was going on his way homewards,

he passed by the little dwarf, who, when he saw the sword and the

loaf, said, 'You have made a noble prize; with the sword you can

at a blow slay whole armies, and the bread will never fail you.'

Then the prince thought to himself, 'I cannot go home to my

father without my brothers'; so he said, 'My dear friend, cannot

you tell me where my two brothers are, who set out in search of

the Water of Life before me, and never came back?' 'I have shut

them up by a charm between two mountains,' said the dwarf,

'because they were proud and ill-behaved, and scorned to ask

advice.' The prince begged so hard for his brothers, that the

dwarf at last set them free, though unwillingly, saying, 'Beware

of them, for they have bad hearts.' Their brother, however, was

greatly rejoiced to see them, and told them all that had happened

to him; how he had found the Water of Life, and had taken a cup

full of it; and how he had set a beautiful princess free from a

spell that bound her; and how she had engaged to wait a whole

year, and then to marry him, and to give him the kingdom.