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Title: East of the sun and west of the moon : old tales from the North
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen, 1812-1885 Moe, Jørgen Engebretsen, 1813-1882 Dasent, George Webbe, Sir, 1817-1896 Nielsen, Kay Rasmus, 1886-1957
Subjects: Fairy tales Folklore -- Norway
Publisher: New York : G.H. Doran
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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n the third St. Johns eve came, the two elderbrothers still hadnt the heart to lie out in the barn and watchthe grass, for they had got so scared at heart the nights theylay there before, that they couldnt get over the fright; butBootSy he dared to go ; and, to make a very long story short,the very same thing happened this time as had happenedtwice before. Three earthquakes came, one after theother, each worse than the one which went before, andwhen the last came, the lad danced about with the shockfrom one barn wall to the other; and after that, all atonce, it was still as death. Now when he had laid a littlewhile, he heard something tugging away at the grassoutside the barn, so he stole again to the door-chink, andpeeped out, and there stood a horse close outside—far, farbigger and fatter than the two he had taken before. Ho, ho! said the lad to himself, its you, is it,that comes here eating up our hay ? Ill soon stop that— 9^BK 3iW ^^W ^®fl 99^ ^^^ 9vQ c^p^ oiv^ c^vQ 999 •36
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