He thought , if he could put over the night , he might get away in the morning without meeting wi ' the beasts , and so escape . But he had not been long in his hidy-hole before the awful Etin came in ; and nae sooner was he in than he was heard crying : `` Snouk but and snouk ben , I find the smell of an earthly man ; Be he living , or be he dead , His heart this night shall kitchen -LRB- 1 -RRB- my bread . '' -LRB- 1 -RRB- `` Kitchen , '' that is , `` season . '' The monster soon found the poor young man , and pulled him from his hole . And when he had got him out he told him that if he could answer him three questions his life should be spared . The first was : Whether Ireland or Scotland was first inhabited ? The second was : Whether man was made for woman , or woman for man ? The third was : Whether men or brutes were made first ? The lad not being able to answer one of these questions , the Red Etin took a mace and knocked him on the head , and turned him into a pillar of stone . On the morning after this happened the younger brither took out the knife to look at it , and he was grieved to find it a ' brown wi ' rust . He told his mother that the time was now come for him to go away upon his travels also ; so she requested him to take the can to the well for water , that she might bake a cake for him . The can being broken , he brought hame as little water as the other had done , and the cake was as little . She asked whether he would have the hale cake wi ' her malison , or the half wi ' her blessing ; and , like his brither , he thought it best to have the hale cake , come o ' the malison what might . So he gaed away ; and everything happened to him that had happened to his brother ! The other widow and her son heard of a ' that had happened frae a fairy , and the young man determined that he would also go upon his travels , and see if he could do anything to relieve his twa friends . So his mother gave him a can to go to the well and bring home water , that she might bake him a cake for his journey . And he gaed , and as he was bringing hame the water , a raven owre abune his head cried to him to look , and he would see that the water was running out . And he was a young man of sense , and seeing the water running out , he took some clay and patched up the holes , so that he brought home enough water to bake a large cake . When his mother put it to him to take the half-cake wi ' her blessing , he took it in preference to having the hale wi ' her malison ; and yet the half was bigger than what the other lads had got a ` thegither . So he gaed away on his journey ; and after he had traveled a far way he met wi ' an auld woman , that asked him if he would give her a bit of his bannock .
And he said he would gladly do that , and so he gave her a piece of the bannock ; and XXXXX that she gied him a magical wand , that she said might yet be of service to him if he took care to use it rightly .
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