At the sight Bernez stood transfixed with horror , and said , ` We are lost ! They will crush us to death . ' ` Not me ! ' answered the sorcerer , holding up the crowsfoot and the five-leaved trefoil , ` for these will preserve me . But in order to keep my riches , I was obliged to sacrifice a Christian to the stones , and an evil fate threw you in my way . ' And as he spoke he stretched out the magic herbs to the stones , which were advancing rapidly . As if acknowledging a power greater than theirs , the monstrous things instantly parted to the right and left of the wizard , but closed their ranks again as they approached Bernez . The young man did not try to escape , he knew it was useless , and sank on his knees and closed his eyes . But suddenly the tall stone that was leading stopped straight in front of Bernez , so that no other could get past . It was the stone on which Bernez had carved the cross , and it was now a baptized stone , and had power to save him . So the stone remained before the young man till the rest had taken their places , and then , darting like a bird to its own hole , came upon the beggar , who , thinking himself quite safe , was staggering along under the weight of his treasures . Seeing the stone approaching , he held out the magic herbs which he carried , but the baptized stone was no longer subject to the spells that bound the rest , and passed straight on its way , leaving the wizard crushed into powder in the heather . Then Bernez went home , and showed his wealth to Marzinne , who this time did not refuse him as a brother-in-law , and he and Rozennik were married , and lived happy for ever after . From ` Le Royer Breton , ' par Emile Souvestre . The Castle of Kerglas Peronnik was a poor idiot who belonged to nobody , and he would have died of starvation if it had not been for the kindness of the village people , who gave him food whenever he chose to ask for it . And as for a bed , when night came , and he grew sleepy , he looked about for a heap of straw , and making a hole in it , crept in , like a lizard . Idiot though he was , he was never unhappy , but always thanked gratefully those who fed him , and sometimes would stop for a little and sing to them . For he could imitate a lark so well , that no one knew which was Peronnik and which was the bird . He had been wandering in a forest one day for several hours , and when evening approached , he suddenly felt very hungry . Luckily , just at that place the trees grew thinner , and he could see a small farmhouse a little way off .
Peronnik went straight towards it , and found the farmer 's wife standing at the door holding XXXXX her hands the large bowl out of which her children had eaten their supper . '
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