However , while in England I made great profit by showing my cattle to persons of quality and others ; and before I began my second voyage I sold them for 600_l . I left 1500_l . with my wife , and fixed her in a good house ; then taking leave of her and my boy and girl , with tears on both sides , I sailed on board the `` Adventure . '' -LRB- 1 -RRB- -LRB- 1 -RRB- Swift . THE PRINCESS ON THE GLASS HILL Once upon a time there was a man who had a meadow which lay on the side of a mountain , and in the meadow there was a barn in which he stored hay . But there had not been much hay in the barn for the last two years , for every St. John 's eve , when the grass was in the height of its vigor , it was all eaten clean up , just as if a whole flock of sheep had gnawed it down to the ground during the night . This happened once , and it happened twice , but then the man got tired of losing his crop , and said to his sons -- he had three of them , and the third was called Cinderlad -- that one of them must go and sleep in the barn on St. John 's night , for it was absurd to let the grass be eaten up again , blade and stalk , as it had been the last two years , and the one who went to watch must keep a sharp look-out , the man said . The eldest was quite willing to go to the meadow ; he would watch the grass , he said , and he would do it so well that neither man , nor beast , nor even the devil himself should have any of it . So when evening came he went to the barn , and lay down to sleep , but when night was drawing near there was such a rumbling and such an earthquake that the walls and roof shook again , and the lad jumped up and took to his heels as fast as he could , and never even looked back , and the barn remained empty that year just as it had been for the last two . Next St. John 's eve the man again said that he could not go on in this way , losing all the grass in the outlying field year after year , and that one of his sons must just go there and watch it , and watch well too . So the next oldest son was willing to show what he could do . He went to the barn and lay down to sleep , as his brother had done ; but when night was drawing near there was a great rumbling , and then an earthquake , which was even worse than that on the former St. John 's night , and when the youth heard it he was terrified , and went off , running as if for a wager . The year after , it was Cinderlad 's turn , but when he made ready to go the others laughed at him , and mocked him . `` Well , you are just the right one to watch the hay , you who have never learned anything but how to sit among the ashes and bake yourself ! '' said they . Cinderlad , however , did not trouble himself about what they said , but when evening drew near rambled away to the outlying field . When he got there he went into the barn and lay down , but in about an hour 's time the rumbling and creaking began , and it was frightful to hear it . `` Well , if it gets no worse than that , I can manage to stand it , '' thought Cinderlad . In a little time the creaking began again , and the earth quaked so that all the hay flew about the boy . `` Oh !
XXXXX it gets no worse than that I can manage to stand it , '' thought Cinderlad .
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