The Boat That Went Both on Land and on Water

The king frowned. "Well," he said, "there's one more thing, a mere trifle to look after before the wedding. My castle seems to me set a little too much toward the shade. You or one of your men must blow on it till it turns a quarter-round toward the sun."

The lad, hat in hand as always, gave a sign to Mill-Puffer. Mill-Puffer lay down on his back and drew back his folded legs, facing (so to speak) one wing of the castle. The castle turned three times around like a top.

The king frowned more and more blackly.

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Text copyright©1989 Random House, from the Pantheon book French Folktales