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Rh But when the time for the wedding came, both the princesses, still thinking of Anthony, asked for a delay of one year, and their royal father granted their request.

Anthony arrived safely in that land. He met a traveller and said to him, "Look here, why should you not change clothes with me?"

He was glad to do so, and Anthony went on to the town in which the princesses lived and sought out a goldsmith. He asked the goldsmith for work.

"I haven't work enough for myself," said the goldsmith.

"Well," said the drummer, "I have had an order for two rings, although I was only walking the street."

"You are a lucky fellow," said the goldsmith, and his wife, when she heard of it, spoke in the drummer's favour, so he was taken on as assistant.

"Now," said he, "give me what I want and I will make the rings. But nobody must enter my room: I will take my meals in at the door."

On the third day one ring was finished, and this one was meant for the Princess Anne.