orts of
delicious dishes and refreshing drinks on them.

'Take this sack,' said the crane.

The man thanked him heartily, took the sack, and went. He had a long
way to walk, and as he presently got hungry, he said to the sack, as the
crane had taught him:

'Two out of the sack!'

And instantly two rough men with thick sticks crept out of the bag and
began to beat him well, crying as they did so:

'Don't boast to your cousins of what you have got,
One--two--
Or you'll find you will catch it uncommonly hot,
One--two--'

And they beat on till the man panted out:

'Two into the sack.'

The words were hardly out of his mouth, when the two crept back into the
sack.

Then the man shouldered the sack, and went off straight to his cousin's
house. He hung the sack up on a nail, and said: 'Please have the
bathroom heated, cousin.'

The cousin heated the bathroom, and the man went into it, but he neither
washed nor rubbed himself, he just sat there and waited.

Meantime his cousin felt hungry, so she called her daughters, and all
four sat down to table. Then the mother said:

'Two out of the sack.'

Instantly two rough men crept out of the sack, and began to beat the
cousin as they cried:

'Greedy pack! Thievish pack!
One--two--
Give the peasant back his sack!
One--two--'

And they went on beating till the woman called to her eldest daughter:
'Go and fetch your cousin from the bathroom. Tell him these two ruffians
are beating me black and blue.'

'I've not finished rubbing myself yet,' said the peasant.

And the two ruffians kept on beating as they sang:

'Greedy pack! Thievish pack!
One--two-- Give the peasant back his sack!

One--two--'

Then the woman sent her second daughter and said: 'Quick, quick, get him
to come to me.'

'I'm just washing my head,' said the man.

Then she sent the youngest girl, and he said: 'I've not done drying
myself.'

At last the woman could hold out no longer, and sent him the sack she
had stolen.

NOW he had quite finished his bath, and as he left the bathroom he
cried:

'Two into the sack.'

And the two crept back at once into the sack.

Then the man took both sacks, the good and the bad one, and went away
home.

When he was near the house he shouted: 'Hallo,