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Updated: August 31, 2025
The Stalo will soon notice this, and will call you to give all the food to the dogs; but, instead, you must bring it straight to us, as it is three days since we have eaten or drunk. That is all you need do for the present. Then Lyma took up her buckets and carried them into the house, and did as her brothers had told her.
Not that that would have mattered, for he was a good swimmer; but Andras drew out the bow and arrows which every Lapp carries, and took aim at him. His aim was good, but the Stalo sprang so high into the air that the arrow flew between his feet.
'Do you mean to tell me that a jump, which the weakest Lapp boy would make nothing of, is beyond your strength? The Stalo grew red and angry when he heard these words, just as Andras meant him to do. He bounded into the air and fell straight into the river.
The unhappy father searched the country for miles round without being able to find as much as a shoe or a handkerchief, to show him where they had passed, but at length a little boy came with news that he had seen the Stalo hiding behind a well, near which the children used to play.
Behind him followed a great dog, which looked stronger than any wolf, or even a bear. But why are you so pale, mother? 'It was the Stalo, replied she, her voice trembling; 'Stalo the man-eater! You did well to hide, or you might never had come back.
It happened that in the long summer nights up in the mountain, where the sun never set, and it was very difficult to get to sleep, Andras had spent many hours in the study of magic, and this stood him in good stead now. The instant he heard the Stalo music he wished himself to become the feet of a reindeer, and in this guise he galloped like the wind for several miles.
The animals were frightened, and began to neigh and kick, as if they were fighting together, and the noise became so great that even the eldest Stalo was awakened by it, and that was a thing which had never occurred before. Raising himself in his bed, he called to his youngest brother to go out and separate the reindeer or they would certainly kill themselves.
'Well, but I don't see how I am to get to you, said the Stalo, looking up and down. 'Jump over, as I did, answered Andras; 'it is quite easy. 'But I could not jump this river; and I don't know how you did, replied the Stalo. 'I should be ashamed to say such things, exclaimed Andras.
As he ran he heard the sound of a pipe, such as only ogres of the Stalo kind were wont to use; and there flashed into his mind what the bailiff had said when they jumped the boat: 'Next time you will have something harder to do. So it was no wreckage after all that he had seen, but the bailiff himself.
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.
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