At first he began to abuse the Master-maid , and then to beg and pray , but the door did not care for anything but keeping him where he was till break of day . As soon as the door let go its hold of him , off went the attorney . He forgot who ought to be paid off for what he had suffered , he forgot both his sack of money and his wooing , for he was so afraid lest the house-door should come dancing after him . Everyone who met him stared and looked after him , for he was flying like a madman , and he could not have looked worse if a herd of rams had been butting at him all night long . On the third day the bailiff came by , and he too saw the gold house in the little wood , and he too felt that he must go and see who lived there ; and when he caught sight of the Master-maid he became so much in love with her that he wooed her almost before he greeted her . The Master-maid answered him as she had answered the other two , that if he had a great deal of money , she would have him . `` So far as that is concerned , I am not ill off , '' said the bailiff ; so he was at once told to go home and fetch it , and this he did . At night he came back , and he had a still larger sack of money with him than the attorney had brought ; it must have been at least six bushels , and he set it down on the bench . So it was settled that he was to have the Master-maid . But hardly had they sat down together before she said that she had forgotten to bring in the calf , and must go out to put it in the byre . `` No , indeed , you shall not do that , '' said the bailiff ; `` I am the one to do that . '' And , big and fat as he was , he went out as briskly as a boy . `` Tell me when you have got hold of the calf 's tail , '' said the Master-maid . `` I have hold of it now , '' cried the bailiff . `` Then may you hold the calf 's tail , and the calf 's tail hold you , and may you go round the world together till day dawns ! '' said the Master-maid . So the bailiff had to bestir himself , for the calf went over rough and smooth , over hill and dale , and , the more the bailiff cried and screamed , the faster the calf went . When daylight began to appear , the bailiff was half dead ; and so glad was he to leave loose of the calf 's tail , that he forgot the sack of money and all else . He walked now slowly -- more slowly than the sheriff and the attorney had done , but , the slower he went , the more time had everyone to stare and look at him ; and they used it too , and no one can imagine how tired out and ragged he looked after his dance with the calf . On the following day the wedding was to take place in the King 's palace , and the elder brother was to drive to church with his bride , and the brother who had been with the giant with her sister .
But when they had seated themselves in the coach and were about to drive off from the palace one of the trace-pins broke , and , though they made one , two , and three to put in its place , that did not help them , for each broke in turn , no matter what kind of wood they used XXXXX make them of .
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