Waltey

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Once upon a time there was a lad walking along a road, cracking nuts. He came upon a worm-eaten one, and just then he met the Devil. “Is it true,” said the lad, “what people say—that the Devil can make himself as small as he likes and squeeze through the eye of a needle?” “Yes!” answered the Devil. “Oh, let me see you do it, then, and crawl into this nut,” said the lad, and the Devil did. Once he had crawled in through the wormhole, the lad plugged it with a little stick. “Now I’ve got you!” he said, and put the nut in his pocket. When he had gone a little farther, he came to a smithy. He went inside and asked the blacksmith if he would crack the nut for him. “Yes, that’ll be easily done,” answered the blacksmith. He took his smallest hammer, laid the nut on the anvil, and struck it, but it would not break. Then he took a slightly larger hammer, but that was not heavy enough either; so he took a larger one still, but that did no good either. At last the blacksmith grew angry and took up his sledgehammer. “I’ll break you yet!” he said, and struck with all his might. The nut shattered with such a crash that half the smithy roof flew off, and it sounded as though the whole place were coming down. “I reckon the Devil himself was in that nut!” said the blacksmith. “Yes, so he was,” answered the lad.

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Der var engang en Gut, som gik paa en Vei, og knækkede

Nødder, saa fandt han en ormstukken en, og med det samme

mødte han Fanden. „Er det sandt,“ sagde Gutten, „hvad de sige, at Fanden kan gjøre sig saa liden han vil, og tvinge sig igjennem et Knappenaalshul?“ „Ja!“ svarede Fanden. „Aa lad mig see det, og kryb ind i denne Nødden,“ sagde Gutten igjen, og det gjorde Fanden. Da han vel var krøben ind gjennem Markhullet, satte Gutten en Pinde i. „Nu har jeg dig

der!“ sagde han, og lagde Nødden i Lommen. Da han havde gaaet et Stykke, kom han til en Smedie, der gik han ind, og bad Smeden, om han vilde slaae den Nødden itu for ham? „Ja det skal være let gjort,“ svarede Smeden, og tog den mindste Hammeren sin, lagde Nødden paa Ambolten, og slog til, men

den vilde ikke i Stykker. Saa tog han en lidt større Hammer,

men den var heller ikke tung nok; han tog da en endnu større

en, men den gjorde det heller ikke, og saa blev Smeden sindt,

og tog Storslæggen. „Jeg skal vel faae dig i Stykker alligevel!“

sagde han, og slog til alt hvad han orkede; og saa gik

Nødden i Knas, saa det halve Smedietaget fløi af og det bragede

som om Hytten skulde ramle ned. „Jeg mener Fanden var

i Nødden, jeg!“ sagde Smeden. „Ja han var saa,“ svarede

Gutten.

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