so he crept up on the window stool, and
sat with his legs dangling down into the yard. The house-dog--for all
dogs have a great enmity to the Nis--as soon as he saw him began to bark
at him, which afforded him much amusement, as the dog could not get up
to him. So he put down first one leg and then the other, and teased the
dog, saying--

"Look at my little leg. Look at my little leg!"

In the meantime the boy had awoke, and had stolen up behind him, and,
while the Nis was least thinking of it, and was going on with his, "Look
at my little leg," the boy tumbled him down into the yard to the dog,
crying out at the same time--

"Look at the whole of him now!"

* * * * *

There lived a man in Thyrsting, in Jutland, who had a Nis in his barn.
This Nis used to attend to his cattle, and at night he would steal
fodder for them from the neighbours, so that this farmer had the best
fed and most thriving cattle in the country.

One time the boy went along with the Nis to Fugleriis to steal corn. The
Nis took as much as he thought he could well carry, but the boy was more
covetous, and said--

"Oh! take more. Sure, we can rest now and then!"

"Rest!" said the Nis. "Rest! and what is rest?"

"Do what I tell you," replied the boy. "Take more, and we shall find
rest when we get out of this."

The Nis took more, and they went away with it, but when they came to the
lands of Thyrsting, the Nis grew tired, and then the boy said to him--

"Here now is rest!" and they both sat down on the side of a little
hill.

"If I had known," said the Nis, as they sat. "If I had known that rest
was so good, I'd have carried off all that was in the barn."

It happened, some time after, that the boy and the Nis were no longer
friends, and as the Nis was sitting one day in the granary-window with
his legs hanging out into the yard, the boy ran at him and tumbled him
back into the granary. The Nis was revenged on him that very night, for
when the boy was gone to bed he stole down to where he was lying and
carried him as he was into the yard. Then he laid two pieces of wood
across the well and put him lying on them, expecting that when he awoke
he would fall, from the fright, into the well and be drowned. He was,
however, disappointed, for the boy came off without injury.

* * * * *

There was a man who lived in the town of Tirup who had a very handsome
white mare. This mare h