But first I will divide with you all that my parents left me , ' and going to her room , she opened a small chest , and took from it a bell , a knife , and a little stick . ` This bell , ' she said , ` can be heard at any distance , however far , but it only rings to warn us that our friends are in great danger . The knife frees all it touches from the spells that have been laid on them ; while the stick will carry you wherever you want to go . I will give you the knife to guard you against the enchantments of wizards , and the bell to tell me of your perils . The stick I shall keep for myself , so that I can fly to you if ever you have need of me . ' Then they cried for a little on each other 's necks , and Houarn started for the mountains . But in those days , as in these , beggars abounded , and through every village he passed they followed Houarn in crowds , mistaking him for a gentleman , because there were no holes in his clothes . ` There is no fortune to be made here , ' he thought to himself ; ` it is a place for spending , and not earning . I see I must go further , ' and he walked on to Pont-aven , a pretty little town built on the bank of a river . He was sitting on a bench outside an inn , when he heard two men who were loading their mules talking about the Groac ' h of the island of Lok . ` What is a Groac ` h ? ' asked he . ' I have never come across one . ' And the men answered that it was the name given to the fairy that dwelt in the lake , and that she was rich -- oh ! richer than all the kings in the world put together . Many had gone to the island to try and get possession of her treasures , but no one had ever come back . As he listened Houarn 's mind was made up . ' I will go , and return too , ' he said to the muleteers . They stared at him in astonishment , and besought him not to be so mad and to throw away his life in such a foolish manner ; but he only laughed , and answered that if they could tell him of any other way in which to procure a cow and a pig to fatten , he would think no more about it . But the men did not know how this was to be done , and , shaking their heads over his obstinacy , left him to his fate .
So Houarn went down to the sea , and found a boatman who engaged to take him to the isle XXXXX Lok .
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