42 Fairy Tales

than I can manage, since, unluckily, I am
not strong like thee. ,It is a man-child that
I am taking to the cave, and he can go no
further. Would he be too heavy for thee?”

“Too heavy, indeed!” she sniffed. “1
could carry a dozen men-children if it
pleased me. Where is this feeble thing
of thine?” |

Krawk, secretly glad at heart, took her
to where poor Jacob lay white and helpless
on the hard road, and she snuffled round
him contemptuously.

“That!” But really she was much in-
terested.

“If thou art sure he would not be too
heavy for thee,” said Krawk carelessly,
“none could carry him so comfortably as
thou, and afterwards I would fetch the
earth-nuts. He wanted to find out where
the clouds come from, and so he was put
under my care. Then”—he shuffled over
that part of the history—“ the woman—
thou knowest—got hold of him, and has
left him like this:”