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But Jack changed himself into a fox, and bit the hare's head off, and if Farmer Weatherbeard was possessed by the evil one all was now over with him. From P. C. Asbjornsen. ONCE upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters; one of them was pretty and clever, and the other ugly and lazy.
The King became ill, and there was no doctor who could cure him till Farmer Weatherbeard arrived, and he demanded the ring which was on the Princess's finger as a reward. So the King sent a messenger to the Princess for the ring. She, however, refused to part with it, because she had inherited it from her mother.
'If anyone should come who wants to buy me, said he, 'you are to tell him that you want a hundred dollars for me; but you must not forget to take off the halter, for if you do I shall never be able to get away from Farmer Weatherbeard, for he is the man who will come and bargain for me. And thus it happened.
But the horse had already shaken off the halter and flung himself into a goose-pond, where he changed himself into a little fish. Farmer Weatherbeard went after him, and changed himself into a great pike. So Jack turned himself into a dove, and Farmer Weatherbeard turned himself into a hawk, and flew after the dove and struck it.
'No, said the man, 'I will not forget. When he got to the market, he received the three hundred dollars, but Farmer Weatherbeard treated him so handsomely that he quite forgot to take off the halter; so Farmer Weatherbeard went away with the horse.
So she gathered them all together by blowing a whistle which she had, and questioned them, but there was not one of them which knew anything about Farmer Weatherbeard. 'Well, said the old woman, 'I have another sister; perhaps she may know something about him. She lives six hundred miles off, but you shall have my horse and carriage, and then you will get there by nightfall.
So the horse stood there stamping, and kicking, and snorting, and rearing, and out came a girl who thought it a sin and a shame to treat a horse so ill. 'Ah, poor creature, what a master you must have to treat you thus! she said, and pushed the halter off the hook so that the horse might turn round and eat the oats. 'I am here! shrieked Farmer Weatherbeard, rushing out of doors.
The people who are inside the house are all so sound asleep that it will not be easy to awake them; but you must go straight to the table-drawer, and take out three bits of bread, and if you hear anyone snoring, pluck three feathers from his head; he will not waken for that. The man did this; when he had got the bits of bread he first plucked out one feather. 'Oof! screamed Farmer Weatherbeard.
'Then you must fling down the great stone which you took away from the stable door, said the Eagle. The man did so, and it turned into a great high mountain of stone, which Farmer Weatherbeard had to break his way through before he could follow them. But when he had got to the middle of the mountain he broke one of his legs, so he had to go home to get it put right.
'I will say that it was my mother's, and that I will not part with it, said the Princess. So Jack changed himself into a gold ring, and set himself on the Princess's finger, and Farmer Weatherbeard could not get at him there. But then all that the youth had foretold came to pass.
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