When they had walked some distance they got upon the ice , and there they met a man in a carriage who was driving a black horse . ` Where are you going ? ' he said . ' I have to go and get my son apprenticed to someone who will be able to teach him a trade , for my old woman comes of such well-to-do folk that she insists on his being taught to be master of all masters , ' said the man . ` We are not ill met , then , ' said the man who was driving , ` for I am the kind of man who can do that , and I am just looking out for such an apprentice . Get up behind with you , ' he said to the boy , and off the horse went with them straight up into the air . ` No , no , wait a little ! ' screamed the father of the boy . ' I ought to know what your name is and where you live . ' ` Oh , I am at home both in the north and the south and the east and the west , and I am called Farmer Weatherbeard , ' said the master . ` You may come here again in a year 's time , and then I will tell you if the lad suits me . ' And then they set off again and were gone . When the man got home the old woman inquired what had become of the son . ` Ah ! Heaven only knows what has become of him ! ' said the man . ` They went up aloft . ' And then he told her what had happened . But when the woman heard that , and found that the man did not at all know either when their son would be out of his apprentice-ship , or where he had gone , she packed him off again to find out , and gave him a bag of food and a roll of tobacco to take away with him . When he had walked for some time he came to a great wood , and it stretched before him all day long as he went on , and when night began to fall he saw a great light , and went towards it .
After a long , long time he came XXXXX a small hut at the foot of a rock , outside which an old woman was standing drawing water up from a well with her nose , it was so long .
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