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Then said the youth, 'See, little cousin, have I not warmed you?'

The dead man, however, got up and cried: 'Now will I strangle

you.'

'What!' said he, 'is that the way you thank me? You shall at once

go into your coffin again,' and he took him up, threw him into

it, and shut the lid. Then came the six men and carried him away

again. 'I cannot manage to shudder,' said he. 'I shall never

learn it here as long as I live.'