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Rh hammer he had, laid the nut on the anvil, and gave it a blow, but it didn't break. So he took a somewhat bigger hammer, but that wasn't heavy enough either ; then he took a still bi^er one, but no, — the nut would not break. This made the smith angry, and he seized the big sledge-hammer. "I shall soon make bits of you," he said, and he gave the nut such a blow that it went into a thousand pieces, and sent half the roof of the smithy flying in the air. Such a crash ! just as if the hut were tumbling together. " I think the devil was in the nut," said the smith. " So he was," said the lad.