Nothing makes me shudder . It 's probably an art quite beyond me . '' Now it happened that his father said to him one day : `` Hearken , you there in the corner ; you are growing big and strong , and you must learn to earn your own bread . Look at your brother , what pains he takes ; but all the money I 've spent on your education is thrown away . '' `` My dear father , '' he replied , `` I will gladly learn -- in fact , if it were possible I should like to learn to shudder ; I do n't understand that a bit yet . '' The eldest laughed when he heard this , and thought to himself : `` Good heavens ! what a ninny my brother is ! he 'll never come to any good ; as the twig is bent , so is the tree inclined . '' The father sighed , and answered him : `` You 'll soon learn to shudder ; but that wo n't help you to make a living . '' Shortly after this , when the sexton came to pay them a visit , the father broke out to him , and told him what a bad hand his youngest son was at everything : he knew nothing and learned nothing . `` Only think ! when I asked him how he purposed gaining a livelihood , he actually asked to be taught to shudder . '' `` If that 's all he wants , '' said the sexton , `` I can teach him that ; just you send him to me , I 'll soon polish him up . '' The father was quite pleased with the proposal , because he thought : `` It will be a good discipline for the youth . '' And so the sexton took him into his house , and his duty was to toll the bell . After a few days he woke him at midnight , and bade him rise and climb into the tower and toll . `` Now , my friend , I 'll teach you to shudder , '' thought he . He stole forth secretly in front , and when the youth was up above , and had turned round to grasp the bell-rope , he saw , standing opposite the hole of the belfry , a white figure . `` Who 's there ? '' he called out , but the figure gave no answer , and neither stirred nor moved .
`` Answer , '' cried the youth , `` or begone ; you have no business here XXXXX this hour of the night . ''
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