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The forester climbed up, brought the child down, and thought to

himself: 'You will take him home with you, and bring him up with

your Lina.' He took it home, therefore, and the two children grew

up together. And the one, which he had found on a tree was called

Fundevogel, because a bird had carried it away. Fundevogel and

Lina loved each other so dearly that when they did not see each

other they were sad.

Now the forester had an old cook, who one evening took two pails

and began to fetch water, and did not go once only, but many

times, out to the spring. Lina saw this and said, 'Listen, old

Sanna, why are you fetching so much water?' 'If you will never

repeat it to anyone, I will tell you why.' So Lina said, no, she

would never repeat it to anyone, and then the cook said: 'Early

tomorrow morning, when the forester is out hunting, I will heat

the water, and when it is boiling in the kettle, I will throw in

Fundevogel, and will boil him in it.'