had two daughters
who were so sharp at cards that they very soon won all the money he
had. When he was picked clean he asked them to stop playing until the
next morning when he would again have plenty of money.

Sure enough in the morning when he got up he had all the money he
wanted. The girls asked him where it came from and he told them.

When they heard about the gizzard he had swallowed, they put something
in his wine that made him sick at his stomach and he threw up the
gizzard. The younger girl instantly snatched it, washed it, and
swallowed it herself. Then as he had no more money they drove the poor
boy away.

As he wandered in the fields he grew very hungry. He came to a meadow
where he found a kind of sorrel that he ate. As soon as he ate it he
turned into a goat and went jumping about the bushes nibbling at the
leaves. He chanced to eat a kind of leaf that changed him back into
himself.

"Ah," he thought, "now I know what to do!"

He picked some of the sorrel and some of the other leaves and went
straight back to the tavern. He told them there that he was bringing
them a present of a new kind of spinach that tasted very good. They
asked him would he cook it for them.

The cook tasted it and at once she turned into a goat. The serving
maid came into the kitchen and when she saw a goat there she drove it
out. The youth asked the maid would she like to taste the new spinach.
She tasted it and immediately she turned into a goat. Then when the
landlady and her two daughters tasted it they, too, turned into goats.

He fed the cook and the serving maid some of the other leaves and they
turned back into themselves. But the other three he left as goats.

He made halters for them and then he hitched them up and drove off.

He drove on and on until he came to a town where the king was
building himself a castle. Now this king was his brother who had eaten
the magic bird's heart. The king's workmen were hauling stone for the
new castle, so he decided to put his goats to work hauling stone. He
loaded his cart heavier than all the other carts.

The king noticed him and recognized him and asked him where he got
those goats. So he told the king the whole story. The king thought the
goats had been punished long enough and begged his brother to have
pity on them and restore them. He took the king's advice and did so.

When they were once more human beings, he married the girl who had
swallowed the gizzard. They s