He is a mannikin with a thick coating of bombast.
Finally, the mannikin agreed that the boy could be put in a boat and shoved off into the water.
The eldest stayed, and a mannikin begged for bread.
When the man gave him some, the mannikin dropped it and asked it to give him it again.
Chestnut-breasted mannikin is a highly sociable species, flocking in large number outside the breeding season.
The mannikin got him to stop by promising to show him how to get the king's daughters again.
