"well!" said the troll, "i have two brothers in a castle; they are twelve times as strong as i am, and that's why i was turned out and had to put up with this farm. they hold that castle, and round it there is an orchard with apples in it, and whoever eats those apples sleeps for three days and three nights. if we could only get the lad to go for the fruit, he wouldn't be able to keep from tasting the apples, and as soon as ever he fell asleep my brothers would tear him in pieces."