A ' night she kept sighing and singing as before : `` Seven lang years I served for thee , '' & c. Still he sleepit , and she nearly lost hope a ` thegither . But that day when he was out at the hunting , somebody asked him what noise and moaning was yon they heard all last night in his bedchamber . He said he heardna ony noise . But they assured him there was sae ; and he resolved to keep waking that night to try what he could hear . That being the third night , and the damosel being between hope and despair , she brak her plum , and it held far the richest jewelry of the three . She bargained as before ; and the auld wife , as before , took in the sleeping-drink to the young knight 's chamber ; but he telled her he couldna drink it that night without sweetening . And when she gaed awa ' for some honey to sweeten it wi ' , he poured out the drink , and sae made the auld wife think he had drunk it . They a ' went to bed again , and the damosel began , as before , singing : `` Seven lang years I served for thee , The glassy hill I clamb for thee , The bluidy shirt I wrang for thee ; And wilt thou no wauken and turn to me ? '' He heard , and turned to her . And she telled him a ' that had befa'en her , and he telled her a ' that had happened to him . And he caused the auld washerwife and her dochter to be burned . And they were married , and he and she are living happy till this day , for aught I ken . -LRB- 1 -RRB- -LRB- 1 -RRB- Chambers , Popular Traditions of Scotland . THE RED ETIN There were ance twa widows that lived on a small bit o ' ground , which they rented from a farmer . Ane of them had twa sons , and the other had ane ; and by-and-by it was time for the wife that had twa sons to send them away to seeke their fortune . So she told her eldest son ae day to take a can and bring her water from the well , that she might bake a cake for him ; and however much or however little water he might bring , the cake would be great or sma ' accordingly ; and that cake was to be a ' that she could gie him when he went on his travels . The lad gaed away wi ' the can to the well , and filled it wi ' water , and then came away hame again ; but the can being broken the maist part of the water had run out before he got back . So his cake was very sma ' ; yet sma ' as it was , his mother asked if he was willing to take the half of it with her blessing , telling him that , if he chose rather to have the hale , he would only get it wi ' her curse . The young man , thinking he might hae to travel a far way , and not knowing when or how he might get other provisions , said he would like to hae the hale cake , com of his mother 's malison what like ; so she gave him the hale cake , and her malison alang wi ` t . Then he took his brither aside , and gave him a knife to keep till he should come back , desiring him to look at it every morning , and as lang as it continued to be clear , then he might be sure that the owner of it was well ; but if it grew dim and rusty , then for certain some ill had befallen him .
So the young man set out XXXXX seek his fortune .
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