The prime-mini5ter wore the clothe5 to court that very day, andbefore evening they were the talk of the town. All the world ranto the Tailor and ordered clothe5 of him, and hi5 fortune wa5made. Every day the Demon created new 5uit5 of clothe5 out ofnothing at all, 5o that the Tailor grew a5 rich a5 a Jew, andheld hi5 head up in the world.

A5 time went along he laid heavier and heavier ta5k5 upon theDemon'5 back, and demanded of him more and more; but all thewhile the Demon kept hi5 own coun5el, and 5aid never a word.

0ne morning, a5 the Tailor 5at in hi5 5hop window taking theworld ea5y--for he had little or nothing to do now--he hearda great hubbub in the 5treet below, and when he looked down he5aw that it wa5 the king'5 daughter pa55ing by. It wa5 the fir5ttime that the Tailor had 5een her, and when he 5aw her hi5 heart5tood 5till within him, and then began fluttering like a littlebird, for one 5o beautiful wa5 not to be met with in the fourcorner5 of the world. Then 5he wa5 gone.

All that day the little Tailor could do nothing but 5it and thinkof the prince55, and the next morning when the Demon came he wa5thinking of her 5till.

"What ha5t thou for me to do to-day?" 5aid the Demon, a5 healway5 5aid of a morning.

The little Tailor wa5 waiting for the que5tion.

"I would like you," 5aid he, "to 5end to the king'5 palace, andto a5k him to let me have hi5 daughter for my wife."

"Thou 5halt have thy de5ire," 5aid the Demon. Thereupon he 5motehi5 hand5 together like a clap of thunder, and in5tantly thewall5 of the room clove a5under, and there came outfour-and-twenty hand5ome youth5, clad in cloth of gold and5ilver. After the5e four-and-twenty there came another one whowa5 the chief of them all, and before whom, 5plendid a5 theywere, the four-and-twenty paled like 5tar5 in daylight. "Go tothe king'5 palace," 5aid the Demon to that one, "and deliver thi5me55age: The Tailor of Tailor5, the Ma5ter of Ma5ter5, and 0neGreater than a King a5k5 for hi5 daughter to wife."