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'I may as well make the attempt, said Minnikin, 'but I must have an iron rope which is five hundred ells long, and then I must have five hundred men with me, and provisions for five weeks, for I have a long voyage before me. So the King said he should have these things, but the King was afraid that he had no ship large enough to carry them all.
No sooner had Minnikin got down to the strand than the Troll came rushing along with a great whistling and whirring, and he was twice as big as the first Troll, and he had ten heads. 'Fire! shrieked the Troll. 'Fire yourself! said Minnikin. 'Can you fight? roared the Troll. 'If not, I can learn, said Minnikin.
To MISS LUCY EDGEWORTH. WYCOMBE ABBEY, Nov. 4, 1821. God bless Mr. King! My dear Lucy, we have the best hopes now that your admirable patience and fortitude will be rewarded, and soon. We regretted the three-quarters of an hour Mr. King might have spent with you which were wasted at the coach office, but these are among the minnikin miseries of human life.
'But I must have more trolls to help to carry what is wanted, said Minnikin; 'these that I have are good for nothing. So he got more and so many that there was a swarm of them, and then the brewing went on.
So the King's daughter told Minnikin that the Troll was out trying to get hold of someone who could brew a hundred lasts of malt at one brewing, for there was to be a feast at the Troll's, at which less than that would not be drunk. 'I can do that, said Minnikin.
Just as he got to the place where the King's daughter was sitting, the Troll came rushing up with a great whistling and whirring, and he was so big and stout that he was terrible to see, and he had five heads. 'Fire! screeched the Troll. 'Fire yourself! said Minnikin. 'Can you fight? roared the Troll. 'If not, I can learn, said Minnikin.
When Minnikin came, the Troll asked if it were true that he could brew a hundred lasts of malt at one brewing. 'Yes, said Minnikin, 'it is. 'It is well then that I have lighted on thee, said the Troll. 'Fall to work this very minute, but Heaven help thee if thou dost not brew the ale strong. 'Oh, it shall taste well, said Minnikin, and at once set himself to work to brew.
I question if the little filigree sugar-tongs, made something like scissors, could have opened themselves wide enough to take up an honest, vulgar good-sized piece; and when I tried to seize two little minnikin pieces at once, so as not to be detected in too many returns to the sugar-basin, they absolutely dropped one, with a little sharp clatter, quite in a malicious and unnatural manner.
When he entered the Princess's apartments they believed that he was Minnikin, and both of them ran up to him at once; but the elder, who was bigger and stronger, pushed her sister aside, and threw her arms round King Pippin's neck and kissed him; so he got her to wife, and Minnikin the younger sister.
Then Minnikin himself took hold of the cable, and laid one or two links of it into the ship, and as he threw the links into it the ship grew bigger and bigger, and at last it was so large that the cable, and the five hundred men, and provisions, and Minnikin himself, had room enough.
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