I know what it is , ' answered the charcoal-burner , hanging his head . The mouse has escaped . ' ' A guard of soldiers will take you back to your hut , ' said the king . ` Your wife has the key . ' ` Were n't they silly ? ' cried the grandchildren of the charcoal-burners when they heard the story . ` How we wish that we had had the chance ! WE should never have wanted to know what was in the soup-tureen ! ' From ` Litterature Orale de l'Auvergne , ' par Paul Sebillot . How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves A little back from the high road there stands a house which is called ` Hemgard . ' Perhaps you remember the two beautiful mountain ash trees by the reddish-brown palings , and the high gate , and the garden with the beautiful barberry bushes which are always the first to become grown in spring , and which in summer are weighed down with their beautiful berries . Behind the garden there is a hedge with tall aspens which rustle in the morning wind , behind the hedge is a road , behind the road is a wood , and behind the wood the wide world . But on the other side of the garden there is a lake , and beyond the lake is a village , and all around stretch meadows and fields , now yellow , now green . In the pretty house , which has white window-frames , a neat porch and clean steps , which are always strewn with finely-cut juniper leaves , Walter 's parents live . His brother Frederick , his sister Lotta , old Lena , Jonah , Caro and Bravo , Putte and Murre , and Kuckeliku . Caro lives in the dog house , Bravo in the stable , Putte with the stableman , Murre a little here and a little there , and Kuckeliku lives in the hen house , that is his kingdom . Walter is six years old , and he must soon begin to go to school . He can not read yet , but he can do many other things . He can turn cartwheels , stand on his head , ride see-saw , throw snowballs , play ball , crow like a cock , eat bread and butter and drink sour milk , tear his trousers , wear holes in his elbows , break the crockery in pieces , throw balls through the windowpanes , draw old men on important papers , walk over the flower-beds , eat himself sick with gooseberries , and be well after a whipping . For the rest he has a good heart but a bad memory , and forgets his father 's and his mother 's admonitions , and so often gets into trouble and meets with adventures , as you shall hear , but first of all I must tell you how brave he was and how he hunted wolves .
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