of one of the fieriest of the chargers, and springing on him, she dashed away.  She wasn’t used to harnessing horses, and was in such a hurry that she forgot all about the bridle, and so, as she was dashing away, she found she couldn’t steer the animal, and he didn’t go anywhere near the prince’s palace, but galloped on, and on, and on, every minute taking her farther and farther away from where she wanted to go.  She couldn’t turn the charger, and she couldn’t stop him, though she tore off pieces of her veil, and tried to put them around his nose, but it was no good.  So when the wedding-party had waited and waited and waited, the prince got angry and married another lady, and nobody knows where the fair lady of renown went to, although there are some people who say that she’s a-galloping yet, and trying to get her veil around the charger’s nose.  Now, why was it that that fair lady of renown never married?  Answer:  Because she had no bridal.  You can say either bri-d-a-l or bri-d-l-e, because they both sound alike, and if she had had either one of them, she would have been married.  This is a pretty long riddle, but it’s easier than mine, because it’s all fixed up right, with the answer to it and everything.  You like it better than mine, don’t you?”

The small girl did not answer, and when Huckleberry looked around, he saw that she was asleep.

“Poor little thing!” said Huckleberry, softly, to himself.  “I guess I gave her a little too much riddle to begin with.  Her mind isn’t formed enough yet.  But it’s pretty hard on me.  I wanted to teach somebody something, and here she’s gone to sleep.  I wish I could find that goose-girl.  If father could teach her something, I’m sure I could.”

[Illustration:  THE FAIR LADY OF RENOWN.]

So he went walking through the fields, and pretty soon he saw Lois, standing among her geese, who were feeding on the grass.

Huckleberry skipped up to her as lively as a cricket.

“Can you tell me,” said he, “why an elephant with a glass globe of gold-fish tied to his tail is like the Lord High Admiral of the British Isles?”

“Was the globe of gold-fish all the elephant owned?” asked the goose-girl, thoughtfully.

“Yes,” said Huckleberry.  “But I don’t see what that’s got to do with it.”

“Then the answer is,” said Lois, without noticing this last remark, “because all his property is entailed.”

“Well, I de-clare!” cried Huckleberry, opening his eyes as wide as they would go, “if you didn’t guess it!  Why, I didn’t know it had an answer.”

“I wish it hadn’t had an answer,” said the goose-girl, suddenly stamping her foot.  “I wish there had never been any answer to it in the whole world.  It was only yesterday that I promised Old Riddler that I would never guess another riddle, and here I’ve done it!  It’s too bad!”

“I don’t think it is,” cried Huckleberry, waving his little cap around by the tassel.  “It’s all very well for father not to want people to guess his riddles, because they’ve got answers and he knows what they are.  But I would never have known that any of mine had an answer if you hadn’t guessed this one.  If you had had a riddle like this one, wouldn’t you have been glad to have some one tell you the answer?”