More English Fairy Tales, part 11 · page 21 2101So in the morning the old man cut off little dog Turpie's head.102The next night the Hobyahs came again, and said, "Hobyah!103Hobyah!104Hobyah!105Tear down the hempstalks, eat up the old man and woman, and carry off the little girl!"106And when the Hobyahs found that little dog Turpie's head was off they tore down the hempstalks, ate up the old man and woman, and carried the little girl off in a bag.107And when the Hobyahs came to their home they hung up the bag with the little girl in it, and every Hobyah knocked on the top of the bag and said, "Look me! look me!"108And then they went to sleep until the next night, for the Hobyahs slept in the daytime.109The little girl cried a great deal, and a man with a big dog came that way and heard her crying.110When he asked her how she came there and she told him, he put the dog in the bag and took the little girl to his home.111The next night the Hobyahs took down the bag and knocked on the top of it, and said "Look me! look me!" and when they opened the bag--the big dog jumped out and ate them all up; so there are no Hobyahs now.112A Pottle o' Brains113Once in these parts, and not so long gone neither, there was a fool that wanted to buy a pottle o' brains, for he was ever getting into scrapes through his foolishness, and being laughed at by every one.114Folk told him that he could get everything he liked from the wise woman that lived on the top o' the hill, and dealt in potions and herbs and spells and things, and could tell thee! all as 'd come to thee or thy folk.115So he told his mother, and asked her if he could seek the wise woman and buy a pottle o' brains.116"That ye should," says she; "thou 'st sore need o' them, my son: and if I should die, who'd take care o' a poor fool such 's thou, no more fit to look after thyself than an unborn baby? but mind thy manners, and speak her pretty, my lad; for they wise folk are gey and light mispleased."1 2← previousMore English Fairy Tales, part 10next →More English Fairy Tales, part 12↑ back to More English Fairy TalesThis page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/25/page/2/