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Updated: June 24, 2025
Then he took out the roll of tobacco, took a whiff, and gave the old woman some snuff on the back of her hand. Then she was so delighted that she began to dance, and the man got leave to stay all night. It was not long before he began to ask about Farmer Weatherbeard. She knew nothing about him, but she ruled over all the fishes, she said, and perhaps some of them might know something.
But the man pulled out his roll of tobacco again, and filled his pipe with some of it, and gave the old woman enough snuff to cover the back of her hand. Then she was so delighted that she began to dance, and the man got leave to stay in her house. It was not long before he asked about Farmer Weatherbeard.
'No, thank you, I will try myself, said the Princess, and she went away to the fireplace and put some ashes on the ring. So the ring came off and was lost among the ashes. Farmer Weatherbeard changed himself into a hare, which scratched and scraped about in the fireplace after the ring until the ashes were up to its ears.
The youth changed himself into a great black horse, and told his father that if a man came and offered him three hundred dollars, and treated him well and handsomely into the bargain, he was to sell him, but whatsoever he did, or how much soever he drank, he must not forget to take off the halter, or else he himself would never get away from Farmer Weatherbeard as long as he lived.
The man did this, and no sooner had he flung them down than they grew up into a great thick wood, and Farmer Weatherbeard had to go home for an axe to cut his way through it. So the Eagle flew on a long, long way, but then it grew tired and sat down on a fir tree. 'Do you see anything? it asked.
'Change thyself into a gold ring, and set thyself on my finger, said the Princess. 'No, that will not do, said Jack, 'for then Farmer Weatherbeard will make the King fall sick, and there will be no one who can make him well again before Farmer Weatherbeard comes and cures him, and for that he will demand the gold ring.
It was not long before he asked about Farmer Weatherbeard. She said that she knew nothing about him, but that she ruled over all the four-footed beasts, and some of them might know him. 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.
'Oh, I am at home both in the north and the south and the east and the west, and I am called Farmer Weatherbeard, said the master. 'You may come here again in a year's time, and then I will tell you if the lad suits me. And then they set off again and were gone. When the man got home the old woman inquired what had become of the son. 'Ah! Heaven only knows what has become of him! said the man.
When the King was informed of this he fell into a rage, and said that he would have the ring, let her have inherited it from whom she might. 'Well, it's of no use to be angry about it, said the Princess, 'for I can't get it off. If you want the ring you will have to take the finger too! 'I will try, and then the ring will very soon come off, said Farmer Weatherbeard.
So the man plucked out another, and then Farmer Weatherbeard shrieked 'Oof! again; but when the man had plucked the third, Farmer Weatherbeard screamed so loudly that the man thought that brick and mortar would be rent in twain, but for all that he went on sleeping. And now the Eagle told the man what he was to do next, and he did it.
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