`` Oh ! hold your tongue ! '' said the landlord 's wife ; `` so many people have paid for their curiosity with their lives , it were a thousand pities if those beautiful eyes were never again to behold daylight . '' But the youth said : `` No matter how difficult , I insist on learning it ; why , that 's what I 've set out to do . '' He left the landlord no peace till he told him that in the neighborhood stood a haunted castle , where one could easily learn to shudder if one only kept watch in it for three nights . The King had promised the man who dared to do this thing his daughter as wife , and she was the most beautiful maiden under the sun . There was also much treasure hid in the castle , guarded by evil spirits , which would then be free , and was sufficient to make a poor man more than rich . Many had already gone in , but so far none had ever come out again . So the youth went to the King and spoke : `` If I were allowed , I should much like to watch for three nights in the castle . '' The King looked at him , and because he pleased him , he said : `` You can ask for three things , none of them living , and those you may take with you into the castle . '' Then he answered : `` Well , I shall beg for a fire , a turning lathe , and a carving bench with the knife attached . '' On the following day the King had everything put into the castle ; and when night drew on the youth took up his position there , lit a bright fire in one of the rooms , placed the carving bench with the knife close to it , and sat himself down on the turning lathe . `` Oh ! if I could only shudder ! '' he said : `` but I sha 'n' t learn it here either . '' Toward midnight he wanted to make up the fire , and as he was blowing up a blaze he heard a shriek from a corner . `` Ou , miou ! how cold we are ! '' `` You fools ! '' he cried ; `` why do you scream ?
XXXXX you are cold , come and sit at the fire and warm yourselves . ''
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