Then they flew away . Towards evening the young man reached the cave where his brothers had met their deaths , and , like them , he thought it would be a good place to sleep in . Looking round , he saw some pieces of the dead men 's clothes and of their bones . The sight made him shiver , but he would not move away , and resolved to await the return of the ogress , for such he knew she must be . Very soon she came striding in , and he asked politely if she would give him a night 's lodging . She answered as before , that he might stay on condition that he should do any work that she might set him to next morning . So the bargain being concluded , the young man curled himself up in his corner and went to sleep . The dirt lay thicker than ever on the floor of the cave when the young man took the spade and began his work . He could not clear it any more than his brothers had done , and at last the spade itself stuck in the earth so that he could not pull it out . The youth stared at it in despair , then the old beggar 's words flashed into his mind , and he cried : ` Tritill , Tritill , come and help me ! ' And Tritill stood beside him and asked what he wanted . The youth told him all his story , and when he had finished , the old man said : ` Spade and shovel do your duty , ' and they danced about the cave till , in a short time , there was not a speck of dust left on the floor . As soon as it was quite clean Tritill went his way . With a light heart the young man awaited the return of the ogress . When she came in she looked carefully round , and then said to him : ` You did not do that quite alone . However , as the floor is clean I will leave your head on . ' The following morning the ogress told the young man that he must take all the feathers out of her pillows and spread them to dry in the sun . But if one feather was missing when she came back at night his head should pay for it . ' The young man fetched the pillows , and shook out all the feathers , and oh ! what quantities of them there were !
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