The Pink Fairy Book, part 12 · page 21 2101These laughed at him heartily, for they had laboured as hard as they could since daybreak, and had helped each other to fell trees and put them on the carts, so that all of these were now loaded except one.102Hans got hold of a woodman’s axe and proceeded to fell a tree, but he destroyed the edge and broke the shaft at the first blow.103He therefore laid down the axe, put his arms round the tree, and pulled it up by the roots.104This he threw upon his cart, and then another and another, and thus he went on while all the others forgot their work, and stood with open mouths, gazing at this strange woodcraft.105All at once they began to hurry; the last cart was loaded, and they whipped up their horses, so as to be the first to arrive home.1 2← previousThe Pink Fairy Book, part 11next →The Pink Fairy Book, part 13↑ back to The Pink Fairy BookThis page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/12/page/2/