A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2 · page 21 2101A wise man in the district advised them to open the grave and see if the buried man was not lying sucking his thumb, for if so he must be a sailor, and the sea would not rest until it had got him back.102The grave was opened, and he really was found with his thumb in his mouth.103So they laid him upon a cart, and harnessed two oxen to it; and the oxen ran off with the sailor over heath and moor to the ocean, as if they had been stung by an adder.104Then the sand ceased to fly inland, but the hills that had been piled up still remained.1 2← previousA Story From the Sand-hills, part 1next →A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3↑ back to Fairy Tales of Hans Christian AndersenThis page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/159/page/2/