When they had gone to bed in the evening, the princess asked again where his heart was, because she was so very fond of him, she said, that she would so like to know it. "Oh, it's over in the cupboard on the wall there," said the giant. Ah, ha, thought both Ash-ie-pat-tle and the princess, we will soon try to find it. Next morning the giant was early out of bed, and made for the wood again, but the moment he was gone Ash-ie-pat-tle and the princess were looking in the cupboard for the heart, but they looked and searched and found no heart. "Well, we must try once more," said the princess. She hung flowers and garlands around the cupboard, and when the evening came Ash-ie-pat-tle crept under the bed again. Shortly the giant came in. "Ugh, Ugh!" he roared, "what a smell of Christian blood there is here."--"Yes, a magpie flew past here just now, and dropped a man's bone down the chimney," said the princess; "I made haste to throw it out, but I suppose that's what you still smell." When the giant heard this, he said no more about it; but as soon as he saw the cupboard decked out with flowers and garlands, he asked who it was that had done that. It was the princess, of course. [Illustration: ASH-IE-PAT-TLE'S PRINCESS.] "But what's the meaning of all this foolery?" asked the giant. "Well, you know how fond I am of you," said the princess, "I couldn't help doing it, when I knew your heart was there." "How can you be so foolish to believe it?" said the giant.--"Well, how can I help believing it when you say so?" answered the princess.--"Oh, you are a foolish creature," said the giant, "you can never go where my heart is!" "Ah, well," said the princess.--"but I should like to know for all that where it is."--So the giant could not refuse to tell her any longer, and he said: "Far, far away in a lake lies an island,--on that island stands a church,--in that church there is a well,--in that well swims a duck,--in that duck there is an egg,--and in the egg--well, there is my heart." Early next morning, almost before the dawn of day, the giant set out for the wood again. "Well, I suppose I had better start as well," said Ash-ie-pat-tle; "I wish I only knew the way!" He said farewell to the princess for a time, and when he came outside the castle there was the wolf still waiting for him. He told the wolf what had happened inside, and that he was now going to set out for the well in the church, if he only knew the way. The wolf asked him to jump on his back,--he would try and find the way, sure enough, he said, and away they went over hills and mountains, over fields and valleys, while the wind whistled about them. When they had traveled many, many days, they came at last to the lake. The prince did not know how he should get across it; but the wolf asked him only not to be afraid, and then he plunged into the water with the prince on his back and swam across to the island.