The Pink Fairy Book, part 26 · page 21 2101The troll then showed him the bushel of money that he had already earned, and the lad was well pleased to serve him for another year.102The first day of the second year the boy had the same work to do as on the previous one--namely, to feed all the wild animals in the troll’s stable.103When he had done this the troll again said some words to him, and with that he became a raven, and flew high up into the air.104This was delightful, the lad thought; he could go even faster now than when he was a hare, and the dogs could not come after him here.105This was a great delight to him, but he soon found out that he was not to be left quite at peace, for all the marksmen and hunters who saw him aimed at him and fired away, for they had no other birds to shoot at than himself, as the troll had tied up all the others.1 2← previousThe Pink Fairy Book, part 25next →The Pink Fairy Book, part 27↑ back to The Pink Fairy BookThis page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/26/page/2/