Ho , ho ! now I have him ! ' Esben was now put into a little dark hole , where he neither saw sun nor moon , and there he was fed on sweet milk and nut-kernels . The daughter had enough to do cracking nuts for him , and at the end of fourteen days she had only one tooth left in her mouth ; she had broken all the rest with the nuts . In this time however , she had taken a liking to Esben , and would willingly have set him free , but could not . When some time had passed the witch told her daughter to go and cut a finger off Esben , so that she could see whether he was nearly fat enough yet . The daughter went and told Esben , and asked him what she should do . Esben told her to take an iron nail and wrap a piece of skin round it : she could then give her mother this to bite at . The daughter did so , but when the witch bit it she cried , ` Uh ! no , no ! This is nothing but skin and bone ; he must be fattened much longer yet . ' So Esben was fed for a while longer on sweet milk and nut-kernels , until one day the witch thought that now he must surely be fat enough , and told her daughter again to go and cut a finger off him . By this time Esben was tired of staying in the dark hole , so he told her to go and cut a teat off a cow , and give it to the witch to bite at . This the daughter did , and the witch cried , ` Ah ! now he is fat -- so fat that one can scarcely feel the bone in him . Now he shall be killed . ' Now this was just the very time that the witch had to go to Troms Church , where all the witches gather once every year , so she had no time to deal with Esben herself . She therefore told her daughter to heat up the big oven while she was away , take Esben out of his prison , and roast him in there before she came back . The daughter promised all this , and the witch went off on her journey . The daughter then made the oven as hot as could be , and took Esben out of his prison in order to roast him .
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