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'I am not the one who carried away the victory,' said he, 'but a

strange knight who came to my assistance with his soldiers.' The

daughter wanted to hear who the strange knight was, but the king

did not know, and said: 'He followed the enemy, and I did not see

him again.' She inquired of the gardener where his boy was, but

he smiled, and said: 'He has just come home on his three-legged

horse, and the others have been mocking him, and crying: "Here

comes our hobblety jib back again!" They asked, too: "Under what

hedge have you been lying sleeping all the time?" So he said: "I

did the best of all, and it would have gone badly without me."

And then he was still more ridiculed.'