`` But , if I sell it , I will have the hand-mill which is standing there behind the door . '' At first they would not hear of this , and haggled and bargained with the man , but he stuck to what he had said , and the people were forced to give him the hand-mill . When the man came out again into the yard , he asked the old wood-cutter how he was to stop the hand-mill , and when he had learned that , he thanked him and set off home with all the speed he could , but did not get there until after the clock had struck twelve on Christmas Eve . `` Where in the world have you been ? '' said the old woman . `` Here I have sat waiting hour after hour , and have not even two sticks to lay across each other under the Christmas porridge-pot . '' `` Oh ! I could not come before ; I had something of importance to see about , and a long way to go , too ; but now you shall just see ! '' said the man , and then he set the hand-mill on the table , and bade it first grind light , then a table-cloth , and then meat , and beer , and everything else that was good for a Christmas Eve 's supper ; and the mill ground all that he ordered . `` Bless me ! '' said the old woman as one thing after another appeared ; and she wanted to know where her husband had got the mill from , but he would not tell her that . `` Never mind where I got it ; you can see that it is a good one , and the water that turns it will never freeze , '' said the man . So he ground meat and drink , and all kinds of good things , to last all Christmas-tide , and on the third day he invited all his friends to come to a feast . Now when the rich brother saw all that there was at the banquet and in the house , he was both vexed and angry , for he grudged everything his brother had . `` On Christmas Eve he was so poor that he came to me and begged for a trifle , for God 's sake , and now he gives a feast as if he were both a count and a king ! '' thought he . `` But , for heaven 's sake , tell me where you got your riches from , '' said he to his brother . `` From behind the door , '' said he who owned the mill , for he did not choose to satisfy his brother on that point ; but later in the evening , when he had taken a drop too much , he could not refrain from telling how he had come by the hand-mill . `` There you see what has brought me all my wealth ! '' said he , and brought out the mill , and made it grind first one thing and then another .
When the brother saw that , he insisted XXXXX having the mill , and after a great deal of persuasion got it ; but he had to give three hundred dollars for it , and the poor brother was to keep it till the haymaking was over , for he thought : `` If I keep it as long as that , I can make it grind meat and drink that will last many a long year . ''
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