Omaha daily bee., 1899-09-17

mails OF yours. But here" says she, pulling
three long hairs out Of her head, and hand
ing them in by the window to him, here"
says she, lis three of the borochs'' we
used to have in old times, and II you tie
them wild beasts OF yours with them then
I'll go In" So he took the three hairs
and tied the hawk, the hound and the hlly
with them, and then the old nag came in,
but she was trembling no longer, and, says
she, with her eyes flashing FIRE, DO you
know who l amp says she. They call
me the Old Hag Of the Forest, and 1t was
my three sons you killed to win the kings
daughter, but you'll pay dearly for 1t now"
says she. With that he drew his sword, and
the bag drew another, and both OF them
fell to 1t, and l couldn't be able to describe
to you the terrible fight they had enirely.
But at length the Old Hag of the Forest
was getting too many for him, and he had
to call on the help Of the hound. Hound,
hound" says he, where are you at my
commando" And at this, Hair, hair" says
the old bag, says she, hold tight" co."
says the hound, ats hard for me to do
anything and my throat a-cutting." Then
he called on the hawk. Hawk, hawk"
says he, where are you at my commando
And, Hair, hair" says the old bag, says
she, "hold tight" 70" says the hawk,
sure it's hard for me to do anything and
throat a-cutting.'' And then he called
on the flly. "Ftly, fly" says he, where
are you at my command" Hair, hair"
says the old bag, says she, hold tight"
90" says the hlly, sure it's hard for me
TO do anything and my throat a-cutting."
So the end Of 1T all was that the bag over
came him, and then taking out of her
pocket a little white rod she struck him
with 1t, and turned him into o gray rock,
Just outside her door, and then striking
the hound, the hawk and the flly with the
rod she turned them into white rocks just
beside him.
Now, at home they watched the water
In the flly's hoof tracks as regularly as the
sun rose every day, day after day, till at
last they one day saw the water in the hoof
tracks frothing, and they said he was fight
ing a hard battle; and so he was, for that
was the very day himself and the first
giant had the encounter. Next day 1t was
frothfng more than ever, for that was the
day he was fighting the second giant, and
on the third day the water frothed right
up out Of the tracks, and then they knew
he was fighting a desperate big battle en-
tirely; and sure enough himself and the
third giant were at 1t hard and fast at
the same instant. But at length didn't they
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thought he must be killed. So the next
morning the second brother set out and he
said he wouldn't stop two nights or eat
two meals of meat in the one house till
he'd find out what happened to his brother.
He took his hound, his hawk and his flly
with him and he travelled on and on, far
further than l could tell you, till at length
one evening late doesn't he come to the very
wee house near a great castle where his
brother had put up before him. And when
he comes in the old woman that was in the
house few at him and kissed him and well
coined him back with a hundred. welcomes
ten times over, for he was so like his
brother she was sure it was him. was in
1t. Then she told him that they were all
waiting for him anxiously at the castle, ex-
pecting him back every day, and that he
should lose no time in going to them, for
that the bride in particular was down
hearted entirely since he had went away,
thinking that she'd never see him any more.
So off he starts at once for the castle to
find it all out, and it's there was the well
and the rejoicing, and the pretty
kings daughter covered him all over with
kisses, and there was a great spread, and
all the gentry and nobility were asked in
again, but that night again. what would
you have Of it, but the hare comes a second
time, and spoiled the cooks best dish, and
drove the cook into a frightful rage, and
"It's a nice how do we do, indeed" says
the cook, says she, that with a hairo in
the house that slew three giants that hare
would be allowed to come in and spoil my
very choicest dish, and then go off with
itself scot free" says she. And this word
came to the new groom in the ball room.
and "by this and by that" says he, II
stop till / go after that hare, and
I'll never stop two nights or eat two meals
in the one house till l bring back that hare
dead or alive" And so, off he starts, him
self, tho hound, the hawk, and the flly; and
all that night and the next day he pursued
anter the hare, and late the next evening
when he was feeling tired out and not
able to follow any further, doesn't he see in
the hollow below him a little house, and
drawing on the house he went in and was
warming himself by the fire with his hound, |
his hawk and his flly about him when he
hears q noise at the window, and there he
sees an old hag quaking and shaking all