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say that you see them?’ he will ask you. ‘Yes! Your feet look like horses’ 
hoofs,’ you will answer him. My grandchild, be sure, by all means, to try 
to see his feet. If you see them, then indeed you will overcome him. But 
if you do not see them, if you do not do as I now am teaching you, he will 
overcome you,” she told him; “But if you see his feet, then indeed you will 
overcome him. Then, if you succeed in staying there four nights, then 
every day he will give you one horse. ‘Go home!’ he will tell you. You 
will not obey him. It is really only if you defeat him that he will give you 
those horses. When the fourth night of your stay has passed, ‘Now, grand- 
father, it is your own horse, the stallion, that I have come to fetch,’ you will 
say to him. ‘Very well,’ he will answer you. By the door there will be 
lying an ugly saddle; and the rawhide bridle, strung together of small 
ends, will be ugly. For these you will ask him. ‘It is those other saddles 
that are good, and those bridles,’ he will say to you. Do not heed his 
words. He will defeat you with this one thing, even though you go un- 
harmed through the four nights,” she told him; “If you persuade him this 
time too, ‘Very well then, grandson; now for my own horse which you have 
come to fetch!’ he will say to you. Then he will go out of the lodge. He 
will take that very same ugly saddle and bridle. Then you will follow 
him. He will stand beside the lake. ‘My horse, come to land!’ he will 
call. At once the water will rise up high; it will look as if it were boiling. 
At last a stallion with a bay coat will come out of the water. It will come 
to the land. It will drag its tail on the ground. And its mane, here, too, 
will almost reach the ground. When it comes to land, ‘There, grandson, 
take him!’ he will say to you. Do not obey him. ‘Take him for me!’ you 
will say to him. When he has taken it, ‘Saddle him for me!’ you will say to 
him. When he has saddled it, then, ‘Here you are, grandson!’ he will say 
to you. Do not heed his speech. ‘Put me on his back!’ do you then say 
to him. If you do this, you will live; you will defeat him. But if you 
take the horse before he has set you on its back, that horse will destroy 
you; it will eat you,” she told him; “But if he puts you on its back, then 
indeed you will come home. Having stayed there four nights, you will 
win forty horses from that old man. But though again and again I have 
taken pity on young men and instructed them even in this wise, yet they 
have not obeyed me. That is why any number of young men have not 
returned from there, but have been destroyed by him,” she told him; “Very 
sad is your father, and your mother, and your elder brother, and those 
your sisters-in-law who are fond of you,” she told him. 
Then he set out, after she had given him the things she wished to give 
him. 'When he set out, “Twice you will sleep on the way,” she had told 
him; and so, when twice he had slept, then he saw a lake. Not at all could 
he see to where the water had its end. At last he came there, close to that 
lake. At last, when the day was past noon, he saw a small knoll. There 
he sat down. Look as he might, he saw nothing. At last a person came 
into sight from the lake, and walked toward him. “Just like a woman,” 
he thought of him, for his skirt was long. 
Then, “Go home,” this person said to him, “My grandson!” he said 
to him. 
“Oh, no! The fact is I have come to visit you!” he answered him. 
“Ha, grandson, the one you have come to fetch you shall take home 
with you!” the other told him, walking toward him; and at the same time 
a white horse came forth into view. 
