The fact, too, that from time to time men had come to see this person added to the probability of his being the king.

Presently they came upon the hut.

A number of pigs were feeding under the trees around it; the door was open, and the shrill tones of a woman's voice raised in anger could be heard as they approached.
"You are an idle loon, and I will no longer put up with your ways, and you may seek another mistress.

You are worse than useless here.

I do but ask you to watch these cakes while I go over to speak with my neighbour, and inquire how she and the child born yestereven are getting on, and you go to sleep by the fire and suffer the case to burn.
"You were not asleep, you say?
then so much the worse.