By Andrew Lang
ReadOasis Step 2
(Part 2)
When they reached the village, Hans stopped poking the horse with the pin. The poor, tired animal continued along slowly. Hans took this chance to climb down the horse?s leg. Then he ran to his aunt?s house, and asked her for a needle.

On the way home, he saw another man on a horse. He did the same thing in order to get home as he did on the way there. When he handed his mother the needle from his aunt, she was surprised, and she asked him, ?But how did ...