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Rh eyes like mill-wheels and the Round Tower at Copenhagen.

“Help me out of my difficulty!” called the soldier to the dogs. “Don’t let them hang me!”

Thereupon the three frightful dogs fell on the judge and the councillors, seized one by the leg, another by the nose, and tossed them high up in the air, so that in tumbling down they were immediately dashed to pieces.

“We are not graciously pleased—” cried the King; but the dogs cared little for that, and took King and Queen, one after the other, and tossed them like the rest in the air.

Then the soldiers grew frightened, and the people called out, “Good soldier, you shall be our King, and you shall have the beautiful Princess for a wife!”

Then the soldier seated himself in the King’s carriage, and all three dogs danced in front of it, and shouted “Hurrah!” The boys in the street whistled, and the soldiers presented arms.