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 load; and if you will do me any further favour, give the boy that pleaes you a Whituntide-gift, to buy him a couple of cakes. His father comes to-morrow, and he will bring us ome white bread out of Bohemia.’ The pirit anwered, I will help thee up with thy burden with all my heart; but unles thou wilt give me up the boy entirely, he hall have no gift from me.’ ‘It is well,’ replied the woman, and went her way.

The farther he went, the heavier grew the baket: he at lat almot fainted under the load, and was forced to breathe every ten teps. This eemed extremely odd: it made her upect all was not right; he imagined Number-Nip had erved her ome trick; o he et the baket on the next tone, and turned it topy-turvy, in order to examine if he had not lipped ome tones into it unawares: nothing, however, but leaves fell out, and not a ingle tone; he therefore filled it again only half, and craped as many leaves into. II.