wishing to get his fifty dollars, said: "Now you know what it is to
shudder." "No," he answered, "how should I? Those fellows up there never
opened their mouths, and were so stupid that they let those few old
tatters they have on their bodies burn." Then the man saw he wouldn't
get his fifty dollars that day, and went off, saying: "Well, I'm blessed
if I ever met such a person in my life before."

The youth went too on his way, and began to murmur to himself: "Oh! if I
could only shudder! if I could only shudder!" A carrier who was walking
behind him heard these words, and asked him: "Who are you" "I don't
know," said the youth. "Where do you hail from?" "I don't know." "Who's
your father?" "I mayn't say." "What are you constantly muttering to
yourself?" "Oh!" said the youth, "I would give worlds to shudder, but no
one can teach me." "Stuff and nonsense!" spoke the carrier; "come along
with me, and I'll soon put that right." The youth went with the carrier,
and in the evening they reached an inn, where they were to spend the
night. Then, just as he was entering the room, he said again, quite
aloud: "Oh! if I could only shudder! if I could only shudder!" The
landlord, who heard this, laughed and said: "If that's what you're
sighing for, you shall be given every opportunity here." "Oh! hold your
tongue!" said the landlord's wife; "so many people have paid for their
curiosity with their lives, it were a thousand pities if those beautiful
eyes were never again to behold daylight." But the youth said: "No
matter how difficult, I insist on learning it; why, that's what I've set
out to do." He left the landlord no peace till he told him that in the
neighborhood stood a haunted castle, where one could easily learn to
shudder if one only kept watch in it for three nights. The King had
promised the man who dared to do this thing his daughter as wife, and
she was the most beautiful maiden under the sun. There was also much
treasure hid in the castle, guarded by evil spirits, which would then
be free, and was sufficient to make a poor man more than rich. Many had
already gone in, but so far none had ever come out again. So the youth
went to the King and spoke: "If I were allowed, I should much like
to watch for three nights in the castle." The King looked at him, and
because he pleased him, he said: "You can ask for three things, none of
them living, and those you may take with you into the castle." Then he
answered: "Well, I shall