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 husband, returned home. It had become dark, so his wife asked him to go and buy some candles. "Candles!" he repeated, "those we have already." Upon this he thrust his fingers into the fire. When he drew them out they were themselves luminous, without being hurt, in any respect, by the flames. The old man was now given two sacks filled with money, and stumbled homeward. When he came near his house, he again remembered that his cow was yet sick; he therefore left the sacks in the middle of the road, ran on home, and asked his wife if the animal had recovered. "What is the matter with you?" said his wife. "Why do you come running as if the house were ready to fall? You need not trouble yourself a bit; the cow is well." He then asked her to assist him in carrying home the two sacks of money. Although she did not believe his tale, he pleaded and talked until she consented to follow him. But when they arrived at the place a thief had again been there, and the money was gone. No wonder that the wife abused her husband. He said, however, only these words: "Well, you don't know what I have learned!"

In a short time the man prepared himself to visit his youngest daughter. When he arrived at a hill, he sat down and ate some of the dry bread which his wife had given him. His daughter came forth immediately—this was the southern side of the hill—and took him into her dwelling. Soon her husband, the troll, made his appearance. As they needed