And with that he burst into a rollicking ditty-- Three rousing cheers for a job like mine, For I must confess it is simply fine To sit all day and take your ease And just do nothing as long as you please. For who would dare to brave my wrath? And who would dare to cross my path To try and win this princess fair? Oh, can you tell me who would dare? "Well," said the twenty-headed Gallopus, when he had finished, "can you tell me who _would_ dare?" "No," said Ting, "I can't. I thought maybe _I_ would, but I've changed my mind." "And quite right, too," said the monster, "you show good sense, for it is certainly foolish to attempt what is impossible. And besides, the Princess is very happy in the castle anyway." "How do you know?" asked the Prince. "Well," said the Gallopus, "she has never complained, and even if she did I would be too bashful to listen to her. I don't know what it is, but it makes me dreadfully nervous to talk to girls. I get so confused and everything. Do you?" "Oh, no," said Ting, "I like to talk to girls." The twenty-headed Gallopus looked at him admiringly. "Hum," he said, "you're much braver than I thought you were. No wonder you thought you could fight me. And now I think you had better run along back home for I want to take a little nap." But Ting had no intention of running back home just then, no indeed, for chancing to look up at the castle windows he had seen the Princess peeping out at him. And one sight of her was enough to make him want to stay there forever. So he told the twenty-headed Gallopus not to mind him but to go ahead and take his nap. "I won't disturb you," he said. "I'll be just as quiet as a mouse." "Very well," replied the Gallopus, "if you'll promise solemnly not to make any noise or chop off any of my heads, I'll do it, for I need the sleep. One of my heads had a headache last night and it kept all the others awake." And with that he wobbled into his cave and began to snore like twenty locomotives all starting from the station at once. "My gracious!" gasped the Prince, "he needn't worry about the noise _I_ make." Then he hurried across the courtyard until he came to the window where the Princess was sitting. "Hello," he shouted at the top of his lungs. "How do you do?" "Very well, thank you," screamed the Princess, leaning out of the window. "Isn't it dreadful the noise that old Gallopus makes?" "Terrible," yelled Ting, thinking how lovely she was, all pink in the face from shouting so. "I've come to rescue you." "Oh, isn't that splendid!" shrieked the Princess, smiling at him. "Do you think you can do it?" "Sure," bawled Ting, "I'll find out some way. I didn't think I could at first, but since I've _seen_ you, I've simply _got_ to."