` She is fat and well-liking , ' replied the youth , ` for the women borrow her mortar to clean their corn , and borrow her pot to cook it in , and for al this they give her more food than she can eat . ' And he went his way . Now the brother was filled with envy at the words of the man , and he set out at once , and before dawn he had reached the hut , and saw the pot and the mortar were standing outside . He slung them over his shoulders and departed , pleased with his own cleverness ; but when his sister awoke and sought for the pot to cook her corn for breakfast , she could find it nowhere . At length she said to herself , ` Well , some thief must have stolen them while I slept . I will go and see if any of my pumpkins are ripe . ' And indeed they were , and so many that the tree was almost broken by the weight of them . So she ate what she wanted and took the others to the village , and gave them in exchange for corn , and the women said that no pumpkins were as sweet as these , and that she was to bring every day all that she had . In this way she earned more than she needed for herself , and soon was able to get another mortar and cooking pot in exchange for her corn . Then she thought she was quite rich . Unluckily someone else thought so too , and this was her brother 's wife , who had heard all about the pumpkin tree , and sent her slave with a handful of grain to buy her a pumpkin . At first the girl told him that so few were left that she could not spare any ; but when she found that he belonged to her brother , she changed her mind , and went out to the tree and gathered the largest and the ripest that was there . ` Take this one , ' she said to the slave , ` and carry it back to your mistress , but tell her to keep the corn , as the pumpkin is a gift . ' The brother 's wife was overjoyed at the sight of the fruit , and when she tasted it , she declared it was the nicest she had ever eaten . Indeed , all night she thought of nothing else , and early in the morning she called another slave -LRB- for she was a rich woman -RRB- and bade him go and ask for another pumpkin . But the girl , who had just been out to look at her tree , told him that they were all eaten , so he went back empty-handed to his mistress . In the evening her husband returned from hunting a long way off , and found his wife in tears . ` What is the matter ? ' asked he . ' I sent a slave with some grain to your sister to buy some pumpkins , but she would not sell me any , and told me there were none , though I know she lets other people buy them . '
` Well , never mind now -- go to sleep , ' said he , ` and to-morrow I will go and pull up the pumpkin tree , and that will punish her XXXXX treating you so badly . '
So about at by for if in off than though