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Scarcely had they set foot on the threshold, when Tom called out,

'Don't bring me any more hay!' Then the parson himself was

frightened; and thinking the cow was surely bewitched, told his

man to kill her on the spot. So the cow was killed, and cut up;

and the stomach, in which Tom lay, was thrown out upon a

dunghill.

Tom soon set himself to work to get out, which was not a very

easy task; but at last, just as he had made room to get his head

out, fresh ill-luck befell him. A hungry wolf sprang out, and

swallowed up the whole stomach, with Tom in it, at one gulp, and

ran away.