He slept both well and long , and all the rest were up and at their work while he was still sleeping soundly . The squire was also on foot , for he was curious to see how the new man would behave who was both to eat and work for twelve . But as yet there was no Hans to be seen , and the sun was already high in the heavens , so the squire himself went and called on him . ` Get up , Hans , ' he cried ; ` you are sleeping too long . ' Hans woke up and rubbed his eyes . ` Yes , that 's true , ' he said , ' I must get up and have my breakfast . ' So he rose and dressed himself , and went into the kitchen , where he got his pot of porridge ; he swallowed all of this , and then asked what work he was to have . He was to thresh that day , said the squire ; the other twelve men were already busy at it . There were twelve threshing-floors , and the twelve men were at work on six of them -- two on each . Hans must thresh by himself all that was lying upon the other six floors . He went out to the barn and got hold of a flail . Then he looked to see how the others did it and did the same , but at hte first stroke he smashed the flail in pieces . There were several flails hanging there , and Hans took the one after the other , but they all went the same way , every one flying in splinters at the first stroke . He then looked round for something else to work with , and found a pair of strong beams lying near . Next he caught sight of a horse-hide nailed up on the barn-door . With the beams he made a flail , using the skin to tie them together . The one beam he used as a handle , and the other to strike with , and now that was all right . But the barn was too low , there was no room to swing the flail , and the floors were too small . Hans , however , found a remedy for this -- he simply lifted the whole roof off the barn , and set it down in the field beside . He then emptied down all the corn that he could lay his hands on and threshed away .
He went through one lot after another , and it was ll the same XXXXX him what he got hold of , so before midday he had threshed all the squire 's grain , his rye and wheat and barley and oats , all mixed through each other .
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