to run. He got down to the shore without meeting anyone, and
there he got into a boat, and pushed off from land. He laughed
immensely to himself at the thought of how cleverly he had
managed and how he had cheated the little man. Just then he
heard a voice from the shore, 'Good evening, Christian, where are
you going?' He gave no answer. 'To-night your legs will be too
short,' he thought, and pulled at the oars. But he then felt
something lay hold of the boat, and drag it straight in to shore,
for all that he sat and struggled with the oars.

The man then laid hold of him, and said, 'You must remain at your
post, as you have promised,' and whether he liked it or not,
Christian had just to go back with him the whole way to the
church.

He could never get in at that window again, Christian said; it
was far too high up.

'You must go in there, and you shall go in there,' said the
little man, and with that he lifted him up on to the window-sill.
Then he said to him: 'Notice well now what you have to do. This
evening you must stretch yourself out on the left-hand side of
her chest. The lid opens to the right, and she comes out to the
left. When she has got out of the chest and passed over you, you
must get into it and lie there, and that in a hurry, without her
seeing you. There you must remain lying until day dawns, and
whether she threatens you or entreats you, you must not come out
of it, or give her any answer. Then she has no power over you,
and both you and she are freed.'