The Waldorf family . me true gold for them. As he was carrying them into the barn, wherehe meant to hide them until night, he fancied theyhad grown heavier, and could not resist his desireto look into one more bag, to be sure that he hadreally been cheated. What was his astonishment,therefore, to find the hairs converted into pearls,the dead leaves into gold pieces, the sand intodiamonds, and the scissors into a superb gold-hiltedsword. The running water had destroyed the en-chantment which the mischievous korils had laidupon their treasures, to guard them from the eyesof mortals. Guilcher pai
The Waldorf family . me true gold for them. As he was carrying them into the barn, wherehe meant to hide them until night, he fancied theyhad grown heavier, and could not resist his desireto look into one more bag, to be sure that he hadreally been cheated. What was his astonishment,therefore, to find the hairs converted into pearls,the dead leaves into gold pieces, the sand intodiamonds, and the scissors into a superb gold-hiltedsword. The running water had destroyed the en-chantment which the mischievous korils had laidupon their treasures, to guard them from the eyesof mortals. Guilcher paid Balibowzik his five crowns, andgave to every poor man in the village a bushel ofwheat, and six ells of cloth, besides bestowing a 194 large sum upon the church. He then went withhis wife to another part of the country; and ashe bought a fine house, and kept a rich equipage,nobody knew that he had not been born a gentle-man, especially as he always conducted himself likea good man and a Christian towards every 195 g^r-flso-js CHAPTER IX.
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