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Updated: June 1, 2025
'I must come myself, I suppose! said Stalo, putting aside the box. But, meanwhile, Patto had slipped from the hook and concealed himself behind the door, so that, as Stalo stepped in, his prisoner raised the axe, and with one blow the ogre's head was rolling on the ground. His sons were so frightened at the sight that they all ran away. And in this manner Patto avenged his dead children.
But, remember that, though he is so tall and strong, he is very stupid, and many a Lapp has escaped from his clutches by playing him some clever trick. Not long after the mother and son had held this talk, it began to be whispered in the forest that the children of an old man called Patto had vanished one by one, no one knew whither.
The young man looked everywhere, but he could not find the axe, for the very good reason that Patto had managed to pick it up and hide it in his clothes. 'Stupid fellow! what is the use of you? grumbled his father angrily; and he bade first one and then another of his sons to fetch him the tool, but they had no better success than their brother.
She slipped and fell, and in another instant had rolled into the water within reach of the Stalo. As soon as Patto heard this tale his heart was filled with rage, and he vowed to have his revenge. So he straightway took an old fur coat from the hook where it hung, and putting it on went out into the forest.
Very soon he heard a 'sh-'sh of the leaves, and there was the Stalo pushing his way through the undergrowth to see what chance he had of a dinner. At the first glimpse of Patto's head in the well he laughed loudly, crying: 'Ha! ha! This time it is the old ass! I wonder how he will taste? And drawing Patto out of the well, he flung him across his shoulders and carried him home.
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