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Then he sat down by his fire and fell asleep, and the next

morning the man came to him and wanted to have the fifty talers,

and said: 'Well do you know how to shudder?' 'No,' answered he,

'how should I know? Those fellows up there did not open their

mouths, and were so stupid that they let the few old rags which

they had on their bodies get burnt.' Then the man saw that he

would not get the fifty talers that day, and went away saying:

'Such a youth has never come my way before.'