Then he vanished , and the young man could not tell where he had gone . However , he felt he had now rested long enough , and that he had better be going his way . At the next hill he met with the second old man , and to him also he gave food and drink . And when this old man had finished he said , like the first : ` If you ever want help in the smallest thing call to me . My name is Litill . ' The young man walked on till he reached the open space in the wood , where he stopped for dinner . In a moment all the birds in the world seemed flying round his head , and he crumbled some of his bread for them and watched them as they darted down to pick it up . When they had cleared off every crumb the largest bird with the gayest plumage said to him : ` If you are in trouble and need help say , `` My birds , come to me ! '' and we will come . ' Then they flew away . Towards evening the young man reached the cave where his brothers had met their deaths , and , like them , he thought it would be a good place to sleep in . Looking round , he saw some pieces of the dead men 's clothes and of their bones . The sight made him shiver , but he would not move away , and resolved to await the return of the ogress , for such he knew she must be . Very soon she came striding in , and he asked politely if she would give him a night 's lodging . She answered as before , that he might stay on condition that he should do any work that she might set him to next morning . So the bargain being concluded , the young man curled himself up in his corner and went to sleep . The dirt lay thicker than ever on the floor of the cave when the young man took the spade and began his work . He could not clear it any more than his brothers had done , and at last the spade itself stuck in the earth so that he could not pull it out . The youth stared at it in despair , then the old beggar 's words flashed into his mind , and he cried : ` Tritill , Tritill , come and help me ! ' And Tritill stood beside him and asked what he wanted .
The youth told him all his story , and when he had finished , the old man said : ` Spade and shovel do your duty , ' and they danced about the cave till , XXXXX a short time , there was not a speck of dust left on the floor .
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