Popular Tales from the Norse by George Webbe Dasent
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the ogre the sack was ready, but he must be sure not to look into it.
So he gave his word he wouldn't, and set off. Now, as the Man o' the Hill walked off, she peeped out after him through a chink in the trap-door; but when he had gone a bit on the way, he said: 'This sack is so heavy, I'll just see what there is inside it.' And so he was about to untie the mouth of the sack, but the girl called out to him: I see what you're at! I see what you're at! 'The deuce you do!' said the Man o' the Hill; 'then you must have plaguy sharp eyes in your head, that's all!' So he threw the sack over his shoulder, and dared not try to look into it again. When he reached the widow's cottage, he threw the sack in through the cottage door, and said: 'Here you have meat and drink from your daughter; she doesn't want for anything.' So, when the girl had been in the hill a good bit longer, one day a billy-goat fell down the trap-door. 'Who sent for you, I should like to know? you long-bearded beast!' said the Man o' the Hill, who was in an awful rage, and with that he whipped up the goat, and wrung his head off, and threw him down into the cellar. |
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