To-day I was going in search of a large eagle that I had shot , and instead of the eagle I have found -- you . ' Then he took Elsa on his horse , and rode with her to the town , where the old king received her graciously . A few days later the wedding took place , and as Elsa was arranging the veil upon her hair fifty carts arrived laden with beautiful things which the lady of the Tontlawald had sent to Elsa . And after the king 's death Elsa became queen , and when she was old she told this story . But that was the last that was ever heard of the Tontlawald . -LRB- From Ehstnische Marchen . -RRB- THE FINEST LIAR IN THE WORLD At the edge of a wood there lived an old man who had only one son , and one day he called the boy to him and said he wanted some corn ground , but the youth must be sure never to enter any mill where the miller was beardless . The boy took the corn and set out , and before he had gone very far he saw a large mill in front of him , with a beardless man standing in the doorway . ` Good greeting , beardless one ! ' cried he . ` Good greeting , sonny , ' replied the man . ` Could I grind something here ? ' ` Yes , certainly ! I will finish what I am doing and then you can grind as long as you like . ' But suddenly the boy remembered what his father had told him , and bade farewell to the man , and went further down the river , till he came to another mill , not knowing that as soon as his back was turned the beardless man had picked up a bag of corn and run hastily to the same mill before him . When the boy reached the second mill , and saw a second beardless man sitting there , he did not stop , and walked on till he came to a third mill . But this time also the beardless man had been too clever for him , and had arrived first by another road . When it happened a fourth time the boy grew cross , and said to himself , ` It is no good going on ; there seems to be a beardless man in every mill ' ; and he took his sack from his back , and made up his mind to grind his corn where he was . The beardless man finished grinding his own corn , and when he had done he said to the boy , who was beginning to grind his , ` Suppose , sonny , we make a cake of what you have there . ' Now the boy had been rather uneasy when he recollected his father 's words , but he thought to himself , ` What is done can not be undone , ' and answered , ` Very well , so let it be . '
Then the beardless one got up , threw the flour into the tub , and made a hole in the middle , telling the boy XXXXX fetch some water from the river in his two hands , to mix the cake .
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