"We will give him enough to last him all his life." Then he
gave him a knapsack, saying, "When you are hungry, you have only to
say, 'Open, sack,' and you will have food and drink in abundance. But
when you have had enough, say, 'Sack, shut,' and all will immediately
return into the knapsack, and it will shut of itself."

The man thanked him heartily for his gift, and went his way. When he had
gone some distance, he said, "Open, sack," and immediately the knapsack
opened of itself, and supplied him with food in plenty. When he had had
enough, he said, "Sack, shut," and the food sprang into the knapsack,
which closed of itself. When he got home, he continued to use it as the
Frost directed.

When he and his wife had lived comfortably thus for some time, the rich
brother began to covet the knapsack, and wanted to buy it. He gave his
poor brother a hundred oxen and cows, and as many horses and sheep. Thus
the poor brother became rich, but he was not much better off, for he had
to feed the animals. They all gathered round him, and he was now as poor
as before. He did not know what to do, except to go back to the Frost
and ask for a new sack. The Frost said, "Why were you so thoughtless as
to give away such a knapsack? You are now just as poor as before." But
at length he gave him a new knapsack, much handsomer than the first.
The poor brother thanked him heartily, and went away joyful, for he
thought he had got a knapsack like the first.

When he felt hungry, he said as before, "Open, sack." Immediately the
knapsack opened, and two fellows sprang out with thick cudgels in their
hands, who beat him as if it was a fine art. The man was so overwhelmed
that he could hardly utter the words, "Sack, shut!" Then the two retired
and the knapsack shut. The man thought to himself, "Have patience! I'll
exchange this with my brother." When he got home, his brother noticed
what a fine knapsack he had, and wanted to exchange. The other had no
objection, and the exchange was soon effected. Then the rich brother
invited all his relatives and the distinguished people of the
neighbourhood, for he thought to use the knapsack first to provide a
grand feast.

As soon as all these people were assembled, the host cried out, "Open,
sack!" Then the knapsack indeed opened, but the men with the cudgels
leaped out among the people, and belaboured them so lustily that they
all fled in different directions, and some barely escaped with their
lives. T