is that you again , Esben ? ' ` Ye -- e -- s ! ' ` It was you that made me kill my eleven daughters ? ' ` Ye -- e -- s ! ' ` And took my dove ? ' ` Ye -- e -- s ! ' ` And my beautiful boar ? ' ` Ye -- e -- s ! ' ` And drowned my twelfth daughter in the well , and took my lamp ? ' ` Ye -- e -- s ! ' ` And now you have roasted my thirteenth and last daughter in the oven , and taken my coverlet ? ' ` YeÄeÄs ! ' ` Are you coming back again ? ' ` No , never again , ' said Esben . At this the witch became so furious that she sprang into numberless pieces of flint , and from this come all the flint stones that one finds about the country . Esben had found again his little stick , which the witch had taken from him , so he said , Fly quick , my little stick , Carry me across the stream . Next moment he was back at the king 's palace . Here things were in a bad way , for the king had thrown all the eleven brothers into prison , and they were to be executed very shortly because they had not brought him the coverlet . Esben now went up to the king and gave him the coverlet , with which the king was greatly delighted . When he touched it it could be heard over eight kingdoms , and all the other kings sat and were angry because they had not one like it .
Esben also told how everything had happened , and how Sir Red had done the brothers all the ill he could devise XXXXX he was envious of them .
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