But she had no corn to clean . She sat at home , sad and hungry , when a neighbour knocked at the door . ` My pot has cracked in the fire , lend me yours to cook my supper in , and I will give you a handful of corn in return . ' And the girl was glad , and that night she was able to have supper herself , and next day another woman borrowed her pot , and then another and another , for never were known so many accidents as befell the village pots at that time . She soon grew quite fat with all the corn she earned with the help of her pot , and then one evening she picked up a pumpkin seed in a corner , and planted it near her well , and it sprang up , and gave her many pumpkins . At last it happened that a youth from her village passed through the place where the girl 's brother was , and the two met and talked . ` What news is there of my sister ? ' asked the young man , with whom things had gone badly , for he was idle . ` She is fat and well-liking , ' replied the youth , ` for the women borrow her mortar to clean their corn , and borrow her pot to cook it in , and for al this they give her more food than she can eat . ' And he went his way . Now the brother was filled with envy at the words of the man , and he set out at once , and before dawn he had reached the hut , and saw the pot and the mortar were standing outside . He slung them over his shoulders and departed , pleased with his own cleverness ; but when his sister awoke and sought for the pot to cook her corn for breakfast , she could find it nowhere . At length she said to herself , ` Well , some thief must have stolen them while I slept . I will go and see if any of my pumpkins are ripe . ' And indeed they were , and so many that the tree was almost broken by the weight of them . So she ate what she wanted and took the others to the village , and gave them in exchange for corn , and the women said that no pumpkins were as sweet as these , and that she was to bring every day all that she had . In this way she earned more than she needed for herself , and soon was able to get another mortar and cooking pot in exchange for her corn . Then she thought she was quite rich . Unluckily someone else thought so too , and this was her brother 's wife , who had heard all about the pumpkin tree , and sent her slave with a handful of grain to buy her a pumpkin . At first the girl told him that so few were left that she could not spare any ; but when she found that he belonged to her brother , she changed her mind , and went out to the tree and gathered the largest and the ripest that was there .
` Take this one , ' she said to the slave , ` and carry it back to your mistress , but tell her to keep the corn , XXXXX the pumpkin is a gift . '
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