The people who are inside the house are all so sound asleep that it will not be easy to awake them ; but you must go straight to the table-drawer , and take out three bits of bread , and if you hear anyone snoring , pluck three feathers from his head ; he will not waken for that . ' The man did this ; when he had got the bits of bread he first plucked out one feather . ` Oof ! ' screamed Farmer Weatherbeard . So the man plucked out another , and then Farmer Weatherbeard shrieked ` Oof ! ' again ; but when the man had plucked the third , Farmer Weatherbeard screamed so loudly that the man thought that brick and mortar would be rent in twain , but for all that he went on sleeping . And now the Eagle told the man what he was to do next , and he did it . He went to the stable door , and there he stumbled against a hard stone , which he picked up , and beneath it lay three splinters of wood , which he also picked up . He knocked at the stable door and it opened at once . He threw down the three little bits of bread and a hare came out and ate them . He caught the hare . Then the Eagle told him to pluck three feathers out of its tail , and put in the hare , the stone , the splinters of wood and himself instead of them , and then he would be able to carry them all home . When the Eagle had flown a long way it alighted on a stone . ` Do you see anything ? ' it asked . ` Yes ; I see a flock of crows coming flying after us , ' said the man . ` Then we shall do well to fly on a little farther , ' said the Eagle , and off it set . In a short time it asked again , ` Do you see anything now ? ' ` Yes ; now the crows are close behind us , ' said the man . ` Then throw down the three feathers which you plucked out of his head , ' said the Eagle .
So the man did this , and no sooner had he flung them down than the feathers became a flock XXXXX ravens , which chased the crows home again .
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