` Good-evening to you , ' said the old woman . ` No one has ever called me mother this hundred years . ' ` Can I lodge here to-night ? ' said the man . ` No , ' said the old woman . Then he took out the roll of tobacco , took a whiff , and gave the old woman some snuff on the back of her hand . Then she was so delighted that she began to dance , and the man got leave to stay all night . It was not long before he began to ask about Farmer Weatherbeard . She knew nothing about him , but she ruled over all the fishes , she said , and perhaps some of them might know something . So she gathered them all together by blowing a whistle which she had , and questioned them , but there was not one of them which knew anything about Farmer Weatherbeard . ` Well , ' said the old woman , ' I have another sister ; perhaps she may know something about him . She lives six hundred miles off , but you shall have my horse and carriage , and then you will get there by nightfall . ' So the man set off and he got there by nightfall . The old woman was standing raking the fire , and she was doing it with her nose , so long it was . ` Good-evening , mother , ' said the man . ` Good-evening to you , ' said the old woman . ` No one has called me mother this hundred years . ' ` 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 XXXXX her hand .
So about before by of on over that to with