` Oh , that is impossible ! I should never get on without him . ' But the robbers offered him forty gold pieces , and at last he agreed to let them have the dog . So they departed , taking the dog with them , and when they got back to their cave the captain declared that it was his right to have the first trial . He then called his daughter , and said to her , ' I am going to the inn ; if anybody wants me , loose the dog , and send him to call me . ' About an hour after some one arrived on business , and the girl untied the dog and said , ` Go to the inn and call my father ! ' The dog bounded off , but ran straight to the shoemaker . When the robber got home and found no dog he thought ` He must have gone back to his old master , ' and , though night had already fallen , he went off after him . ` Master Joseph , is the dog here ? ' asked he . ` Ah ! yes , the poor beast is so fond of me ! You must give him time to get accustomed to new ways . ' So the captain brought the dog back , and the following morning handed him over to another of the band , just saying that the animal really could do what the shoemaker had said . The second robber carefully kept his own counsel , and fetched the dog secretly back from the shoemaker , and so on through the whole band . At length , when everybody had suffered , they met and told the whole story , and next day they all marched off in fury to the man who had made game of them . After reproaching him with having deceived them , they tied him up in a sack , and told him they were going to throw him into the sea . The shoemaker lay quite still , and let them do as they would . They went on till they came to a church , and the robbers said , ` The sun is hot and the sack is heavy ; let us leave it here and go in and rest . ' So they put the sack down by the roadside , and went into the church .
Now , XXXXX a hill near by there was a swineherd looking after a great herd of pigs and whistling merrily .
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