Folk Tales Every Child Should Know

safe, and was just going down the steps, there came the North Wind, puffing and blowing, caught up the meal, and so away with it through the air. Then the lad went back into t

ard that the North Wind should behave so, he thought h

, and he walked and walked; but at l

, and "thank you for com

his voice was loud and gruff, "AND THANKS

that meal you took from me on the safe steps, for we haven't much to live on; and if yo

ed, I'll give you a cloth which will get you everything you want, if you o

ome in one day, he turned into an inn on the way; and when they were going to sit

f, and serve up all k

all the landlady. So, when all were fast asleep, at dead of night, she took the lad's cloth, and put another in it

cloth and went off with it, and t

, for he gave me this cloth, and when I only say to it, 'Cloth, spread yourse

mother; "but seeing is believing, an

rew out a table, laid th

lf, and serve all up

f dry bread did t

help for it but to go to the Nor

he North Wind lived l

ning!" sa

g," said the

hich you took," said the lad; "for as for

ut yonder you have a ram which coins nothin

am! make

too far to get home that day, he turned in for th

d found it all right; but when the landlord saw that, he thought it was a famous ram, and, when

e lad; and when he got h

r now he has given me a ram which can coin golde

mother; "but I shan't believe any su

d the lad; but if the ram m

nd blew him up, and said the ram was worth not

o give you but that old stick in the corner yonde

lay on!' it lays

stick! no

ut as he could pretty well guess how things stood as to the cloth and the ra

ed up one which was like it, and when he heard the lad snore, was going to ch

stick!

d, till he jumped over chairs, and tab

se it will beat me to death, and you shal

t the landlord had

stick! n

me with his stick in his hand, leading the ram by a cord round