He had kept coming out of the labyrinth on to the side of the knoll.

At one of these exits, to his great joy, he had seen the figure of a little girl, dressed in the short serge skirt and blue jersey he had been told the princess was wearing, slipping through the bushes at the foot of the knoll.

With a loud shout he had dashed down it in pursuit and plunged after her into the wood.

Her sunbonnet was still in sight ahead among the bushes, and by great good fortune he succeeded in keeping it in sight.

Once, indeed, when he thought that he had lost it for good and all, it suddenly reappeared ahead of him; and he was able to take up the chase again.