could change himself into the shape of any animal, or any other thing that he pleased.
when he had learned all this he did not think it worth while staying there any longer, so he ran away home to his parents again. soon after this there was a market in the next village, and the boy told his mother that he had learned how to change himself into the shape of any animal he chose.
his mother was frightened at the idea, but the boy told her that she need not be alarmed; all would be well. so he changed himself to a horse, such a fine horse, too, that his father 