` Can I lodge here to-night ? ' said the man . ` No , ' said the old woman . But the man pulled out his roll of tobacco again , and filled his pipe with some of it , and gave the old woman enough snuff to cover the back of her hand . Then she was so delighted that she began to dance , and the man got leave to stay in her house . It was not long before he asked about Farmer Weatherbeard . She knew nothing at all about him , she said , but she governed all the birds ; and she gathered them together with her whistle . When she questioned them all , the eagle was not there , but it came soon afterwards , and when asked , it said that it had just come from Farmer Weatherbeard 's . Then the old woman said that it was to guide the man to him . But the eagle would have something to eat first , and then it wanted to wait until the next day , for it was so tired with the long journey that it was scarcely able to rise from the earth . When the eagle had had plenty of food and rest , the old woman plucked a feather out of its tail , and set the man in the feather 's place , and then the bird flew away with him , but they did not get to Farmer Weatherbeard 's before midnight . When they got there the Eagle said : ` There are a great many dead bodies lying outside the door , but you must not concern yourself about them . The people who are inside the house are all so sound asleep that it will not be easy to awake them ; but you must go straight to the table-drawer , and take out three bits of bread , and if you hear anyone snoring , pluck three feathers from his head ; he will not waken for that . ' The man did this ; when he had got the bits of bread he first plucked out one feather . ` Oof ! ' screamed Farmer Weatherbeard . So the man plucked out another , and then Farmer Weatherbeard shrieked ` Oof ! ' again ; but when the man had plucked the third , Farmer Weatherbeard screamed so loudly that the man thought that brick and mortar would be rent in twain , but for all that he went on sleeping . And now the Eagle told the man what he was to do next , and he did it . He went to the stable door , and there he stumbled against a hard stone , which he picked up , and beneath it lay three splinters of wood , which he also picked up .
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