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Siegfrid and Handa.

be careful not to be caught ;” so he undid the trap, and the Hare sprang from it, but instead of running away, as Siegfrid had expected, it sat quite still in front of him, looking into his face.

“I saw Handa last night,” it said at last, in a wheezy voice.

Siegfrid stared, but he was so overjoyed at hearing again of Handa, that he quite got over. his surprise at hearing a Hare speak.

“Saw Handa!” he cried. “Oh, where? Is she alive? Oh, tell me.”

“She is in a cavern underground,” said the Hare. “She and all the other little girls are sitting there in a row, and they cannot move or speak, because on their feet are magic shoes that the old shoemaker made for them, which hold them as still as marble. He waited for them one by one near the village, and gave to each a pair of pretty yellow shoes, and when she had put them on, they ran away with her, and she could not stop try what she might; and the shoes took her right into the middle of the forest. Then the ground opened, and the shoes ran right down into the cavern underground, and the earth closed up again; and there sit poor Handa and the

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