‘One day,’ says he, ‘when I was going round the land, I found another man's cows on my land, and I brought them with me into a cattle-pound. The owner of the cows followed me and said that he would give me a reward for letting his cows go free. I gave him his cows, he gave me a pig and an axe and a log, the pig to be killed with the axe every night, and the log to be cleft by it, and there will (then) be enough firewood to boil the pig, and enough for the palace besides. And, moreover, the pig is alive on the morning after, and the log is whole. And from thence till today they are in that wise.’