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Updated: June 3, 2025


Ashpot watched him getting gradually drunk, and heard him mutter to himself, "To-night I will kill him," so he began to think of a plan to outwit his master. When he went to bed he placed the giant's cream-whisk between the sheets as a dummy, while he himself crept under the bedstead.

At the first puff Ashpot found himself flying up to the ceiling as if he had been a feather, but he managed to catch hold of a piece of birch-bark among the rafters, and on reaching the ground again he told the giant that he had been up to get something to make the fire burn. The fire was soon burning splendidly, and the giant commenced to brew the ale, drinking it off as fast as it was made.

The other story is also about Ashpot, whose two elder brothers still treated him very badly, and eventually turned him out of his home. Poor Ashpot wandered away up into the mountains, where he met a huge giant. At first he was terribly afraid, but after a little while he told the giant what had happened to him, and asked him if he could find a job for him.

He did not understand boys, and he was afraid of Ashpot's tricks, so he offered him as much gold and silver as he could carry if he would go away and never return. Ashpot, however, replied that the amount he could carry would not be worth having, and that he could not think of going unless he got as much as the giant could carry.

So away went Ashpot, and no sooner had he reached the wood than he met a bear. "Friend bear," said Ashpot, "will you help me?" "Willingly," answered the bear. "Get up on my back." And Ashpot mounted the bear's back and rode off. Presently they met a wolf. "Friend wolf," said Ashpot, "will you do some work for me ?" "Willingly," answered the wolf.

"They are my father's cows," replied Ashpot, "and you had better put down your burden and run back to your mountain, or they may bite you." The giant was only too happy to get away, so, depositing his load, which was as big as a small hill, he made off, and left the boy to carry his treasure home by himself.

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