"Stone!"

Then the third miller's man laid down his tool and looked up,

"Dead!"

Then all three cried out with one voice: "Oh, what a beautiful song!
Sing it, sweet bird, again." "If you will put the millstone round my
neck," said the bird. The men did what the bird wanted and away to the
tree it flew with the millstone round its neck, the red shoes in one
foot, and the gold watch and chain in the other. It sang the song and
then flew home. It rattled the millstone against the eaves of the
house, and the stepmother said: "It thunders." Then the little boy ran
out to see the thunder, and down dropped the red shoes at his feet. It
rattled the millstone against the eaves of the house once more, and
the stepmother said again: "It thunders." Then the father ran out and
down fell the chain about his neck.

In ran father and son, laughing and saying, "See, what fine things the
thunder has brought us!" Then the bird rattled the millstone against
the eaves of the house a third time; and the stepmother said: "It
thunders again, perhaps the thunder has brought something for me," and
she ran out; but the moment she stepped outside the door, down fell
the millstone on her head; and so she died.



THE OLD WOMAN AND HER PIG