`` Why should you do that ? '' said the attorney ; `` sit still , I will do it . '' So he was on his feet in a moment , and out in the porch . `` Tell me when you have got hold of the door-latch , '' said the Master-maid . `` I have hold of it now , '' cried the attorney . `` Then you may hold the door , and the door you , and may you go between wall and wall till day dawns . '' What a dance the attorney had that night ! He had never had such a waltz before , and he never wished to have such a dance again . Sometimes he was in front of the door , and sometimes the door was in front of him , and it went from one side of the porch to the other , till the attorney was well-nigh beaten to death . At first he began to abuse the Master-maid , and then to beg and pray , but the door did not care for anything but keeping him where he was till break of day . As soon as the door let go its hold of him , off went the attorney . He forgot who ought to be paid off for what he had suffered , he forgot both his sack of money and his wooing , for he was so afraid lest the house-door should come dancing after him . Everyone who met him stared and looked after him , for he was flying like a madman , and he could not have looked worse if a herd of rams had been butting at him all night long . On the third day the bailiff came by , and he too saw the gold house in the little wood , and he too felt that he must go and see who lived there ; and when he caught sight of the Master-maid he became so much in love with her that he wooed her almost before he greeted her . The Master-maid answered him as she had answered the other two , that if he had a great deal of money , she would have him . `` So far as that is concerned , I am not ill off , '' said the bailiff ; so he was at once told to go home and fetch it , and this he did . At night he came back , and he had a still larger sack of money with him than the attorney had brought ; it must have been at least six bushels , and he set it down on the bench . So it was settled that he was to have the Master-maid . But hardly had they sat down together before she said that she had forgotten to bring in the calf , and must go out to put it in the byre . `` No , indeed , you shall not do that , '' said the bailiff ; `` I am the one to do that . ''
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