They came in crowds , and the kettle was passed from hand to hand , and they were allowed to examine it all over , and even to look inside . Then Jimmu took it back , and setting it on the platform , commanded it to become a tanuki . In an instant the handle began to change into a head , and the spout into a tail , while the four paws appeared at the sides . ` Dance , ' said Jimmu , and the tanuki did his steps , and moved first on one side and then on the other , till the people could not stand still any longer , and began to dance too . Gracefully he led the fan dance , and glided without a pause into the shadow dance and the umbrella dance , and it seemed as if he might go on dancing for ever . And so very likely he would , if Jimmu had not declared he had danced enough , and that the booth must now be closed . Day after day the booth was so full it was hardly possible to enter it , and what the neighbour foretold had come to pass , and Jimmu was a rich man . Yet he did not feel happy . He was an honest man , and he thought that he owed some of his wealth to the man from whom he had bought the kettle . So , one morning , he put a hundred gold pieces into it , and hanging the kettle once more on his arm , he returned to the seller of it . ' I have no right to keep it any longer , ' he added when he had ended his tale , ` so I have brought it back to you , and inside you will find a hundred gold pieces as the price of its hire . ' The man thanked Jimmu , and said that few people would have been as honest as he . And the kettle brought them both luck , and everything went well with them till they died , which they did when they were very old , respected by everyone . The Shifty Lad In the land of Erin there dwelt long ago a widow who had an only son . He was a clever boy , so she saved up enough money to send him to school , and , as soon as he was old enough , to apprentice him to any trade that he would choose . But when the time came , he said he would not be bound to any trade , and that he meant to be a thief . Now his mother was very sorrowful when she heard of this , but she knew quite well that if she tried to stop his having his own way he would only grow more determined to get it . So all the answer she made was that the end of thieves was hanging at the bridge of Dublin , and then she left him alone , hoping that when he was older he might become more sensible . One day she was going to church to hear a sermon from a great preacher , and she begged the Shifty Lad , as the neighbours called him from the tricks he played , to come with her . But he only laughed and declared that he did not like sermons , adding : ` However , I will promise you this , that the first trade you hear named after you come out from church shall be my trade for the rest of my life . '
These words gave a little comfort XXXXX the poor woman , and her heart was lighter than before as she bade him farewell .
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