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So he set out once more on his journey, sighing, and in great

despair, when on a sudden his friend the fox met him, and said,

'You see now what has happened on account of your not listening

to my counsel. I will still, however, tell you how to find the

golden horse, if you will do as I bid you. You must go straight

on till you come to the castle where the horse stands in his

stall: by his side will lie the groom fast asleep and snoring:

take away the horse quietly, but be sure to put the old leathern

saddle upon him, and not the golden one that is close by it.'

Then the son sat down on the fox's tail, and away they went over

stock and stone till their hair whistled in the wind.