But it is fearfully cold ! ' said one , and began to beat his arms backwards and forwards across his breast . ` Yes , I am so cold that my teeth are chattering , ' said another . ` If one had but a little tobacco , ' said a third . Well , one of them had a little , so they shared it among them , though there was very little for each man , but they chewed it . This was some help to them , but very soon they were just as cold as before . ` Hutetu ! ' said one of them , shivering again . ` Hutetu ! ' said the old woman , gnashing her teeth together till they chattered inside her mouth ; and then she got out the flask which contained nothing but brandy , and her hands trembled so that she shook the bottle about , and when she drank it made a great gulp in her throat . ` What is that you have in your flask , old woman ? ' asked one of the stable boys . ` Oh , it 's only a little drop of brandy , your honour , ' she said . ` Brandy ! What ! Let me have a drop ! Let me have a drop ! ' screamed all the twelve at once . ` Oh , but what I have is so little , ' whimpered the old woman . ` It will not even wet your mouths . '
But they were determined to have it , and there was nothing XXXXX be done but give it ; so she took out the flask with the sleeping drink and put it to the lips of the first of them ; and now she shook no more , but guided the flask so that each of them got just as much as he ought , and the twelfth had not done drinking before the first was already sitting snoring .
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