I am invited to the wedding , ' answered the reindeer , ` and the miller has begged me on no account to fail him . ' ' O fool ! ' cried the boy , ` have you no sense at all ? Do n't you know that when you get there they will hold you fast , for neither beast nor bird is as strong or as swift as you ? ' ` That is exactly why I am quite safe , ' replied the reindeer . ' I am so strong that no one can bind me , and so swift that not even an arrow can catch me . So , goodbye for the present , you will soon see me back . ' But none of the animals that went to the miller 's wedding ever came back . And because they were self-willed and conceited , and would not listen to good advice , they and their children have been the servants of men to this very day . -LSB- Lapplandische Mahrchen . -RSB- Fortune and the Wood-Cutter Several hundreds of years ago there lived in a forest a wood-cutter and his wife and children . He was very poor , having only his axe to depend upon , and two mules to carry the wood he cut to the neighbouring town ; but he worked hard , and was always out of bed by five o'clock , summer and winter . This went on for twenty years , and though his sons were now grown up , and went with their father to the forest , everything seemed to go against them , and they remained as poor as ever . In the end the wood-cutter lost heart , and said to himself : ` What is the good of working like this if I never am a penny the richer at the end ? I shall go to the forest no more ! And perhaps , if I take to my bed , and do not run after Fortune , one day she may come to me . ' So the next morning he did not get up , and when six o'clock struck , his wife , who had been cleaning the house , went to see what was the matter . ` Are you ill ? ' she asked wonderingly , surprised at not finding him dressed . ` The cock has crowed ever so often .
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