` Dear mother , do you know who it is you have been talking with ? ' The old woman started , but answered quietly : ` It is a Sodno , I suppose ? ' ` You have guessed right , ' replied Lyma . The mother of the Stalos looked round for her iron cane , which she always used to kill her victims , but it was not there , for Lyma had put it in the fire . ` Where is my iron cane ? ' asked the old woman . ` There ! ' answered Lyma , pointing to the flames . The old woman sprang forwards and seized it , but her clothes caught fire , and in a few minutes she was burned to ashes . So the Sodno brothers found the treasure , and they carried it , and their sister and the reindeer , to their own home , and were the richest men in all Lapland . Andras Baive -LSB- From Lapplandische Marchen , J. C. Poestion . -RSB- Once upon a time there lived in Lapland a man who was so very strong and swift of foot that nobody in his native town of Vadso could come near him if they were running races in the summer evenings . The people of Vadso were very proud of their champion , and thought that there was no one like him in the world , till , by-and-by , it came to their ears that there dwelt among the mountains a Lapp , Andras Baive by name , who was said by his friends to be even stronger and swifter than the bailiff . Of course not a creature in Vadso believed that , and declared that if it made the mountaineers happier to talk such nonsense , why , let them ! The winter was long and cold , and the thoughts of the villagers were much busier with wolves than with Andras Baive , when suddenly , on a frosty day , he made his appearance in the little town of Vadso . The bailiff was delighted at this chance of trying his strength , and at once went out to seek Andras and to coax him into giving proof of his vigour . As he walked along his eyes fell upon a big eight-oared boat that lay upon the shore , and his face shone with pleasure . ` That is the very thing , ' laughed he , ' I will make him jump over that boat . ' Andras was quite ready to accept the challenge , and they soon settled the terms of the wager . He who could jump over the boat without so much as touching it with his heel was to be the winner , and would get a large sum of money as the prize .
So , followed XXXXX many of the villagers , the two men walked down to the sea .
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