it fast, and the princess held fast also, so that it broke in two

pieces. Hjalmar had one piece, and the princess the other, but

Hjalmar's was the largest. At each castle stood little princes

acting as sentinels. They presented arms, and had golden swords, and

made it rain plums and tin soldiers, so that they must have been

Hjalmar continued to sail, sometimes through woods, sometimes as

it were through large halls, and then by large cities. At last he came

to the town where his nurse lived, who had carried him in her arms