th eyes as large as mill-wheels.

'You had better not look at me so hard!' said the Soldier. 'Your eyes
will come out of their sockets!'

And then he set the dog on the apron. When he saw all the silver in
the chest, he threw away the copper he had taken, and filled his
pockets and knapsack with nothing but silver.

Then he went into the third room. Horrors! the dog there had two eyes,
each as large as the Round Tower at Copenhagen, spinning round in his
head like wheels.

'Good evening!' said the Soldier and saluted, for he had never seen a
dog like this before. But when he had examined him more closely, he
thought to himself: 'Now then, I've had enough of this!' and put him
down on the floor, and opened the chest. Heavens! what a heap of gold
there was! With all that he could buy up the whole town, and all the
sugar pigs, all the tin soldiers, whips and rocking-horses in the
whole world. Now he threw away all the silver with which he had filled
his pockets and knapsack, and filled them with gold instead--yes, all
his pockets, his knapsack, cap and boots even, so that he could hardly
walk. Now he was rich indeed. He put the dog back upon the chest, shut
the door, and then called up through the tree:

'Now pull me up again, old Witch!'

'Have you got the tinder-box also?' asked the Witch.

'Botheration!' said the Soldier, 'I had clean forgotten it!' And then
he went back and fetched it.

The Witch pulled him up, and there he stood again on the high road,
with pockets, knapsack, cap and boots filled with gold.

[Illustration: The Soldier Fills his Knapsack with Money]

'What do you want to do with the tinder-box?' asked the Soldier.

'That doesn't matter to you,' replied the Witch. 'You have got your
money, give me my tinder-box.'

'We'll see!' said the Soldier. 'Tell me at once what you want to do
with it, or I will draw my sword, and cut off your head!'

'No!' screamed the Witch.

The Soldier immediately cut off her head. That was the end of her! But
he tied up all his gold in her apron, slung it like a bundle over his
shoulder, put the tinder-box in his pocket, and set out towards the
town.

It was a splendid town! He turned into the finest inn, ordered the
best chamber and his favourite dinner; for now that he had so much
money he was really rich.

It certainly occurred to the servant who had to clean his boots that
they were astonishingly old boots for such a rich lord. But that was
because he h