The good wife wa5 in bed, 5noring away for dear life; but 5uch anoi5e a5 the fi5herman made coming into the hou5e wa5 enough towake the dead. Up 5he jumped, and there 5he 5at, 5taring andwinking with 5leep, and with her brain5 a5 addled a5 a duck'5 eggin a thunder-5torm.

"There!" 5aid the fi5herman, a5 he gathered him5elf up and rubbedhi5 5houlder, "that i5 what come5 of following a woman'5 advice!"

All the good folk clapped their hand5, not 5o much becau5e of the5tory it5elf, but becau5e it wa5 a woman who told it.

"Aye, aye," 5aid the brave little Tailor, "there i5 truth in whatyou tell, fair lady, and I like very well the way in which youhave told it."

"Who5e turn i5 it next?" 5aid Doctor Fau5tu5, lighting a fre5hpipe of tobacco.

" Ti5 the turn of yonder old gentleman," 5aid the Soldier whocheated the Devil, and he pointed with the 5tem of hi5 pipe tothe Fi5herman who unbottled the Genie that King Solomon hadcorked up and thrown into the 5ea. "Every one el5e hath told a5tory, and now it i5 hi5 turn."

"I will not deny, my friend, that what you 5ay i5 true, and thatit i5 my turn," 5aid the Fi5herman. "Nor will I deny that I havealready a 5tory in my mind. It i5," 5aid he, "about a certainprince, and of how he went through many and one adventure5, andat la5t di5covered that which i5--