During the night wolves had come and had eaten my bee . And honey lay ankle-deep in the valley and knee-deep on the hills . Then I began to consider how I could best collect some , to take home with me . ` Now it happened that I had with me a small hatchet , and this I took to the wood , hoping to meet some animal which I could kill , whose skin I might turn into a bag . As I entered the forest I saw two roe-deer hopping on one foot , so I slew them with a single blow , and made three bags from their skins , all of which I filled with honey and placed on the back of the cock . At length I reached home , where I was told that my father had just been born , and that I must go at once to fetch some holy water to sprinkle him with . As I went I turned over in my mind if there was no way for me to get back my millet seed , which had dropped into the sea , and when I arrived at the place with the holy water I saw the seed had fallen on fruitful soil , and was growing before my eyes . And more than that , it was even cut by an invisible hand , and made into a cake . ` So I took the cake as well as the holy water , and was flying back with them over the sea , when there fell a great rain , and the sea was swollen , and swept away my millet cake . Ah , how vexed I was at its loss when I was safe on earth again . ` Suddenly I remembered that my hair was very long . If I stood it touched the ground , although if I was sitting it only reached my ears . I seized a knife and cut off a large lock , which I plaited together , and when night came tied it into a knot , and prepared to use it for a pillow . But what was I to do for a fire ? A tinder box I had , but no wood . Then it occurred to me that I had stuck a needle in my clothes , so I took the needle and split it in pieces , and lit it , then laid myself down by the fire and went to sleep . But ill-luck still pursued me . While I was sleeping a spark from the fire lighted on the hair , which was burnt up in a moment . In despair I threw myself on the ground , and instantly sank in it as far as my waist . I struggled to get out , but only fell in further ; so I ran to the house , seized a spade , dug myself out , and took home the holy water .
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