said he . ` It is a magical basket , and if you are hungry you have only got to say : `` Little basket , little basket , do your duty , '' and you will eat the best dinner you ever had in your life . But when you have had enough , be sure you do n't forget to cry out : `` That will do for to-day . '' Oh ! -- and one thing more -- you need not show it to everybody and declare that I have give it to you . Do you understand ? ' Father Grumbler was always accustomed to think of himself as so unlucky that he did not know whether the Holy Man was not playing a trick upon him ; but he took the basket without being polite enough to say either ` Thank you , ' or ` Good-morning , ' and went away . However , he only waited till he was out of sight of the cave before he stooped down and whispered : ` Little basket , little basket , do your duty . ' Now the basket had a lid , so that he could not see what was inside , but he heard quite clearly strange noises , as if a sort of scuffling was going on . Then the lid burst open , and a quantity of delicious little white rolls came tumbling out one after the other , followed by a stream of small fishes all ready cooked . What a quantity there were to be sure ! The whole road was covered with them , and the banks on each side were beginning to disappear . Father Grumbler felt quite frightened at the torrent , but at last he remembered what the Holy Man had told him , and cried at the top of his voice : ` Enough ! enough ! That will do for to-day ! ' And the lid of the basket closed with a snap . Father Grumbler sighed with relief and happiness as he looked around him , and sitting down on a heap of stones , he ate till he could eat no more . Trout , salmon , turbot , soles , and a hundred other fishes whose names he did not know , lay boiled , fried , and grilled within reach of his hands . As the Holy Man had said , he had never eaten such a dinner ; still , when he had done , he shook his head , and grumbled ; ` Yes , there is plenty to eat , of course , but it only makes me thirsty , and there is not a drop to drink anywhere . ' Yet , somehow , he could never tell why , he looked up and saw the tavern in front of him , which he thought was miles , and miles , and miles away .
` Bring the best wine you have got , and two glasses , good mother , ' he said XXXXX he entered , ` and if you are fond of fish there is enough here to feed the house .
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