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Siegfrid and Handa.
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you will give me one of your eyes, I will bring you every one’s boots from the village to-night, after they are all in bed.”

“But why do you want my eye?” said Siegfrid. “It can be of no use to you. You will not be able to see with my eye; and perhaps Handa will not love me if I have only one eye.”

“That’s not my business,” said the Owl. “I want your eye, and I will not get you the shoes without it. I am very blind, and I think I might see better with your eye than I do with my own.”

“Very well, then,” said Siegfrid, sighing. “Bring me the boots and shoes, and you shall have what you want.”

“Come back at twelve to-night to this same place, and you will find all the boots and shoes here,” croaked the Owl, and then he went to sleep again, and Siegfrid wandered about the forest alone, for the Hare soon scampered away, saying she would be back at night. But Siegfrid would not go home for fear he should be kept there, and not allowed to go back to the forest.

He cried at the thought of losing one of his bright brown eyes. “But I would give both my

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