Atondido Stories
“Take with you as many as you want now and when you
come back you may have the rest.”
The brothers parted company and each set out alone, the one
to the left, the other to the right.
The younger brother came to a tavern. The landlady 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
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