career, he therefore took three fish scales from his pocket-book, and making a present of them to the young knight, said:—If you are in need of assistance rub these in your hands till they become warm, and await the result.”
Reginald then stepped into the gilded gondola, and was rowed by two Gondoliers to the shore. Scarcely had he touched it when the gondola, palace, gardens, and squares disappeared—nothing remained but an enormous fish-pond overgrown with sea-weed agitated by the cool morning breeze. The knight saw himself again on the same place from whence three months ago, he had so bravely plunged into the water; his shield and armour were at the same spot, and the spear stood planted in the ground as he had left it. There he made a vow not to take rest till the key of the enchantment was in his hand.
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