This night also he was awakened by the same sounds as before , and in the morning they found , near the stream , the most beautiful cow-house that ever was seen , with stalls and milk-pails and stools all complete , indeed , everything that a cow-house could possibly want , except the cows . Then the girl bade him measure out the ground for a storehouse , and this , she said , might be as large as he pleased ; and when the storehouse was ready she proposed that they should set off to pay her parents a visit . The old people welcomed them heartily , and summoned their neighbours , for many miles round , to a great feast in their honour . In fact , for several weeks there was no work done on the farm at all ; and at length the young man and his wife grew tired of so much play , and declared that they must return to their own home . But , before they started on the journey , the wife whispered to her husband : ` Take care to jump over the threshold as quick as you can , or it will be the worse for you . ' The young man listened to her words , and sprang over the threshold like an arrow from a bow ; and it was well he did , for , no sooner was he on the other side , than his father-in-law threw a great hammer at him , which would have broken both his legs , if it had only touched them . When they had gone some distance on the road home , the girl turned to her husband and said : 'Till you step inside the house , be sure you do not look back , whatever you may hear or see . ' And the husband promised , and for a while all was still ; and he thought no more about the matter till he noticed at last that the nearer he drew to the house the louder grew the noise of the trampling of feet behind him . As he laid his hand upon the door he thought he was safe , and turned to look . There , sure enough , was a vast herd of cattle , which had been sent after him by his father-in-law when he found that his daughter had been cleverer than he . Half of the herd were already through the fence and cropping the grass on the banks of the stream , but half still remained outside and faded into nothing , even as he watched them . However , enough cattle were left to make the young man rich , and he and his wife lived happily together , except that every now and then the girl vanished from his sight , and never told him where she had been . For a long time he kept silence about it ; but one day , when he had been complaining of her absence , she said to him : ` Dear husband , I am bound to go , even against my will , and there is only one way to stop me . Drive a nail into the threshold , and then I can never pass in or out . ' And so he did . -LSB- Lapplandische Mahrchen . -RSB- How Some Wild Animals Became Tame Ones Once upon a time there lived a miller who was so rich that , when he was going to be married , he asked to the feast not only his own friends but also the wild animals who dwelt in the hills and woods round about . The chief of the bears , the wolves , the foxes , the horses , the cows , the goats , the sheep , and the reindeer , all received invitations ; and as they were not accustomed to weddings they were greatly pleased and flattered , and sent back messages in the politest language that they would certainly be there . The first to start on the morning of the wedding-day was the bear , who always liked to be punctual ; and , besides , he had a long way to go , and his hair , being so thick and rough , needed a good brushing before it was fit to be seen at a party . However , he took care to awaken very early , and set off down the road with a light heart .
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