He put on the garters and went. But when the king's daughter saw the cook arrayed in the broidered waistcoat and the grand gay garters, her arms drooped, and she had to go home for fear she should faint.
"Did you see the princess at the fair?" said the lad, when he came home, "and did she speak to you to-day?"
"I saw her," said the head-cook, "and she saw me, and as soon as ever she did her arms fell by her sides, and she went home." "She must be in love with you," said the cook's mate.
"I rather think that she is," said the king's head-cook.
That night it was the same story. The lad went to see the princess, and before he went away she gave him a cap (biorraid) to put on his head, and bade him wear it at the fair, for it was the fashion in that country for ladies to give keepsakes to
