THE GIANT AND THE BIRDS
he came, "and so to-night I will give you two eggs for your supper." But when she handed him the eggs Little Fawn said "It was not the eggs of the hedge-sparrow we were wont to eat in my time." "Eggs of the hedge-sparrow!" said Murrish, "I have handed you the biggest eggs laid by the best hens in the country." "In my time there were bigger eggs in the nest of the hedge-sparrow," said Little Fawn.
The next day she gave him a barley-cake for his breakfast. He ate it and then sent the boy Ardan was his name to ask what else she was going to give him.
"Give him!" said Murrish the Cook-woman, "I have given him a whole barley cake, and that is enough for two men's breakfasts."
"Tell her," said Little Fawn, "that I often saw an ivy-leaf that was as big as her barley cake."
"Tell him," said Murrish the Cook-woman, "that I am not here to listen to old mens' romances."
Now when he heard that his words were taken as old men's romances Little Fawn was an angry
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