It had to be brushed and plaited a dozen times a day."
From a plaited belt were suspended a number of odd devices made of hand-beaten metal, drilled stone and looped leather.
The Prince went home, told his father all that had happened, and asked him to have a leather rope plaited, long enough to reach to the other world.
And if any one comes into the house, it's into the room he'll slip, not to see them; and as to work, he has the garden dug to bits, and the whole place smeared with cow dung; and such a crop as was never seen; and the alders all plaited till they look grand.