"Put on your cap and take my hand, so that they will not see us! We can make better use of the magic boots than these wicked dwarfs can." So they each hastily slipped on a boot and, being invisible because of the magic cap, passed out from among the dwarfs before they had stopped fighting over the jewels.
"And now," said Saran, "while we have on the boots, let us test their power by wishing to be somewhere."
"Very well," said Schalu, "I wish that we may be taken at once to a country that needs a king!"
Immediately the two friends felt themselves picked up and whizzed through the air with such speed that they could see nothing and feel nothing but the wind rushing by their ears. Then they were put down gently upon the ground and found themselves in a strange country.
Soon they saw a great procession of men, women and children advancing toward them, and at their head walked an
