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So he went on his way, and did just as the Mastermaid had told him; and when he reached the rock, he took up the club and gave a great thump. Then the rock opened, and out came one whose face glistened, and out of whose eyes and nostrils flew sparks of fire. 'What is your will? said he. 'Oh! I'm only come from the Giant to fetch his fire-tax', said the Prince.
'Have you been to Hell after my fire-tax? roared the Giant. 'Oh yes; that I have, master', answered the Prince. 'Where have you put it? said the Giant. 'There stands the sack on the bench yonder', said the Prince.
Yes; he would be sure to say that; so he sat in there with the Mastermaid all that day too; and though evening drew on, he would have sat there till now, had not the Mastermaid put him in mind that it was high time to be off to Hell to fetch the Giant's fire-tax before he came home.
'Oh, if that's all', said the Giant, 'you'll see her soon enough. The third day, at dawn, the Giant went off to the wood again with his goats; but before he went he said to the Prince: 'To-day you must go to Hell and fetch my fire-tax. When you have done that you can rest yourself all day, for you must know it is an easy master you have come to'; and with that off he went.
'Easy master, indeed! said the Prince. 'You may be easy, but you set me hard tasks all the same. But I may as well see if I can find your Mastermaid, as you call her. I daresay she'll tell me what to do'; and so in he went to her again. So when the Mastermaid asked what the Giant had set him to do that day, he told her how he was to go to Hell and fetch the fire-tax.
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