Then she was so delighted that she began to dance , and the man got leave to stay all night . It was not long before he began to ask about Farmer Weatherbeard . She knew nothing about him , but she ruled over all the fishes , she said , and perhaps some of them might know something . So she gathered them all together by blowing a whistle which she had , and questioned them , but there was not one of them which knew anything about Farmer Weatherbeard . ` Well , ' said the old woman , ' I have another sister ; perhaps she may know something about him . She lives six hundred miles off , but you shall have my horse and carriage , and then you will get there by nightfall . ' So the man set off and he got there by nightfall . The old woman was standing raking the fire , and she was doing it with her nose , so long it was . ` Good-evening , mother , ' said the man . ` Good-evening to you , ' said the old woman . ` No one has called me mother this hundred years . ' ` Can I lodge here to-night ? ' said the man . ` No , ' said the old woman . But the man pulled out his roll of tobacco again , and filled his pipe with some of it , and gave the old woman enough snuff to cover the back of her hand . Then she was so delighted that she began to dance , and the man got leave to stay in her house . It was not long before he asked about Farmer Weatherbeard . She knew nothing at all about him , she said , but she governed all the birds ; and she gathered them together with her whistle . When she questioned them all , the eagle was not there , but it came soon afterwards , and when asked , it said that it had just come from Farmer Weatherbeard 's . Then the old woman said that it was to guide the man to him .
But the eagle would have something XXXXX eat first , and then it wanted to wait until the next day , for it was so tired with the long journey that it was scarcely able to rise from the earth .
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