city, and had found no one whom the slipper would fit) they went to try it on the old woman's daughter. Then the little dog began to cry out—"Wow! wow! wow!"
"Turkey wattle on the dais,
Star on forehead 'neath the bread-trough!"
And as she repeated this many times, one of the gentlemen noticed it and said, "Do ye hear what that little dog is saying?"
"Turkey wattle on the dais,
Star on forehead 'neath the bread-trough!"
So they went to lift up the kneading-trough and found there Maria the cinder-maiden. They took her up and tried on her the slipper, and it fitted her foot perfectly. Then she brought out the fellow, and unbandaged her forehead, and they all saw that it was the same fair maiden who had been at the ball. They took her to the prince in spite of the screams of the old woman; the prince married her, great royal feasts were proclaimed, the merry-making lasted a long time, and the tale came to an end.
SOME FOLK-LORE OF THE SEA.
By the Rev. Walter Gregor.
HE swell that precedes the storm is called "the sea afore the storm." (Cove, near Aberdeen.)
When there is a swell, and the waves are breaking heavily on the beach, it is called "a fool (foul) shore." (Pittulie.)
In such cases, when the fishermen, on the return from the fishing-ground, come near the shore, they hang back till there is a lull, and the sea is smooth, which takes place pretty regularly, after every three big waves, according to the common opinion, they pull with all
