Here are fifty dollars for you , set forth into the wide world with them ; but see you tell no one where you come from or who your father is , for I am ashamed of you . '' `` Yes , father , whatever you wish ; and if that 's all you ask , I can easily keep it in mind . '' When day broke the youth put the fifty dollars into his pocket , set out on the hard high road , and kept muttering to himself : `` If I could only shudder ! if I could only shudder ! '' Just at this moment a man came by who heard the youth speaking to himself , and when they had gone on a bit and were in sight of the gallows the man said to him : `` Look ! there is the tree where seven people have been hanged , and are now learning to fly ; sit down under it and wait till nightfall , and then you 'll pretty soon learn to shudder . '' `` If that 's all I have to do , '' answered the youth , `` it 's easily done ; but if I learn to shudder so quickly , then you shall have my fifty dollars . Just come back to me to-morrow morning early . '' Then the youth went to the gallows-tree and sat down underneath it , and waited for the evening ; and because he felt cold he lit himself a fire . But at midnight it got so chill that in spite of the fire he could n't keep warm . And as the wind blew the corpses one against the other , tossing them to and fro , he thought to himself : `` If you are perishing down here by the fire , how those poor things up there must be shaking and shivering ! '' And because he had a tender heart , he put up a ladder , which he climbed unhooked one body after the other , and took down all the seven . Then he stirred the fire , blew it up , and placed them all round in a circle , that they might warm themselves . But they sat there and did not move , and the fire caught their clothes . Then he spoke : `` Take care , or I 'll hang you up again . '' But the dead men did not hear and let their rags go on burning . Then he got angry , and said : `` If you are n't careful yourselves , then I ca n't help you , and I do n't mean to burn with you '' ; and he hung them up again in a row . Then he sat down at his fire and fell asleep . On the following morning the man came to him , and , wishing to get his fifty dollars , said : `` Now you know what it is to shudder . '' `` No , '' he answered , `` how should I ?
Those fellows up there never opened their mouths , and were so stupid XXXXX they let those few old tatters they have on their bodies burn . ''
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