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Still she said nothing of this, and only replied, 'I would rather thou wert a man by day and a hoodie by night, And so he was; and a handsomer man or a more beautiful hoodie never was seen. The girl loved them both, and never wished for things to be different. By and bye they had a son, and very pleased they both were.
Once there lived a farmer who had three daughters, and good useful girls they were, up with the sun, and doing all the work of the house. One morning they all ran down to the river to wash their clothes, when a hoodie came round and sat on a tree close by. 'Wilt thou wed me, thou farmer's daughter? he said to the eldest.
However, after a night's rest he was in a better temper, and thought that he might be more lucky the third time, so back he went to the old place. 'Wilt thou wed me, farmer's daughter? he said to the youngest. 'Indeed I will wed thee; a pretty creature is the hoodie, answered she, and on the morrow they were married.
'That is my married wife, he declared, 'and no one else will I have, and at that very moment the spells fell off him, and never more would he be a hoodie. Happy indeed were they to be together again, and little did they mind that the hill of poison took long to cross, for she had to go some way forwards, and then throw the horse-shoes back for him to put on.
'Wilt thou wed me, farmer's daughter? he said to the youngest. 'Indeed I will wed thee; a pretty creature is the hoodie, answered she, and on the morrow they were married. 'I have something to ask thee, said the hoodie when they were far away in his own house. 'Wouldst thou rather I should be a hoodie by day and a man by night, or a man by day and a hoodie by night?
At the door stood a little boy, and her heart was filled with pleasure at the sight of him, she did not know why. After that a woman bade her enter, and set food before her, and gave her a soft bed to lie in. And when the sun rose she got up, and left the house, in search of the hoodie.
"I will leave the axe and the wood knife here till I return," says he. "If you leave 'em, leave 'em," said a hoodie that was in a tree, "we'll steal 'em, steal 'em." "If you will do that," says the giant, "I must take them home." He returned home and left them at the house. At the heat of day the giant's daughter felt her father's breath burning her back.
"I will leave the tools here, and I will return no more." "If you leave 'em, leave 'em," says the hoodie, "we will steal 'em, steal 'em." "Do that if you will; there is no time to go back." At the time of breaking the watch, the giant's daughter said that she felt her father's breath burning her back. "Look in the filly's ear, king's son, or else we are lost."
"Oh! would the black dog of the carcass of flesh were here!" No sooner spoke he the word than the grateful dog was at his side; and after the hind he went, and they were not long in bringing her to earth. But he no sooner caught her than a hoodie sprang out of her. "Would that the falcon grey, of sharpest eye and swiftest wing, were here!"
No sooner said he this than the falcon was after the hoodie, and she was not long putting her to earth; and as the hoodie fell on the bank of the loch, out of her jumps the trout. "Oh! that thou wert by me now, oh otter!"
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