` You come hurrying as if the whole house was about to fall . You may set your mind at rest : the cow has not calved yet . ' The man now asked her to come and help him home with the two sacks of money . She did not believe him very much , but he continued to assure her that it was quite true , till at last she gave in and went with him . When they came to the spot there had again been a thief there and taken the money . It was no wonder that the woman was angry about this , but the man only said , ` Ah , if you only knew what I have learned . ' A third time the man set out -- to visit his eldest daughter . When he came to a mound he sat down on the east side of it and ate the dry bread which his wife had given him to take with him . The daughter then came out of the mound and invited her father to come inside . In a little the troll came home , and his wife asked him to go and buy some fish . ` We can get them much more easily than that , ' said the troll . ` Give me your dough trough and your ladle . ' They seated themselves in the trough , and rowed out on the lake which was beside the mound . When they had got out a little way the troll said to his wife , ` Are my eyes green ? ' ` No , not yet , ' said she . He rowed on a little further and asked again , ` Are my eyes not green yet ? ' ` Yes , ' said his wife , ` they are green now . ' Then the troll sprang into the water and ladled up so many fish that in a short time the trough could hold no more . They then rowed home again , and had a good meal off the fish . The old man now got three sacks full of money , and set off home with them .
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