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18 “if that be your opinion, I would also have you to know, that the mighty spirit of the mountains cannot endure that name; and that he chuses to call himself the Lord of the Hills.”

“That would be an odd sort of a servant whom I must call my Lord of the Hills;” said Constantine, in a tone of raillery.

“You may call me Forester then,” rejoined his companion. Constantine looked awhile on the earth, pondering upon the course he should adopt, and at length exclaimed:

“Well! agreed! I can hardly do amiss in accepting your services. I have often seen a poor senseless brute drilled into domestic use, by carrying parcels, turning spits and other household duties—why not a goblin?”

His new servant burst into a hearty laugh at this observation, and said: “I must acknowledge such an estimate was never before made of one of my family. But I am not the less pleased with it, so give me your hand my honoured master.”

Constantine made a further condition, that his new servant was, on no account, to inform