down.

After some time the gray-haired man came, looked at her by the
light of his candle, and shook his head. And when he saw that she
was sound asleep, he opened a trapdoor and let her fall into the
cellar.

The woodcutter came home late in the evening, and reproached his
wife for leaving him all day without food.

'No, I did not,' she answered; 'the girl went off with your
dinner. She must have lost her way, but will no doubt come back
to-morrow.'

But at daybreak the woodcutter started off into the wood, and
this time asked his second daughter to bring his food.

'I will take a bag of lentils,' said he; 'they are larger than
millet, and the girl will see them better and be sure to find her
way.'

At midday the maiden took the food, but the lentils had all gone;
as on the previous day, the wood birds had eaten them all.

The maiden wandered about the wood till nightfall, when she came
in the same way to the old man's house, and asked for food and a
night's lodging.

The man with the white hair again asked the beasts: