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INTRODUCTORY, part 7 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/101/) — So the Demon took the form of a youth, and went to the smithy. - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/102/) — "Good day, uncle!" says he. - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/103/) — "Good day!" - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/104/) — "What should you say, uncle, to taking me as an apprentice? - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/105/) — At all events, I could carry fuel for you, and blow the bellows." - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/106/) — The Smith liked the idea. " - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/107/) — Why shouldn't I?" he replied. " - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/108/) — Two are better than one." - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/109/) — The Demon began to learn his trade; at the end of a month he knew more about smith's work than his master did himself, was able to do everything that his master couldn't do. - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/110/) — It was a real pleasure to look at him! - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/111/) — There's no describing how satisfied his master was with him, how fond he got of him. - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/112/) — Sometimes the master didn't go into the smithy at all himself, but trusted entirely to his journeyman, who had complete charge of everything. - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/113/) — Well, it happened one day that the master was not at home, and the journeyman was left all by himself in the smithy. - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/114/) — Presently he saw an old lady\[70\] driving along the street in her carriage, whereupon he popped his head out of doors and began shouting:-- - [115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/115/) — "Heigh, sirs! - [116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/116/) — Be so good as to step in here! - [117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/117/) — We've opened a new business here; we turn old folks into young ones." - [118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/118/) — Out of her carriage jumped the lady in a trice, and ran into the smithy. - [119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/119/) — "What's that you're bragging about? - [120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/120/) — Do you mean to say it's true? - [121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/121/) — Can you really do it?" she asked the youth. - [122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/122/) — "We haven't got to learn our business!" answered the Demon. " - [123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/123/) — If I hadn't been able to do it, I wouldn't have invited people to try." - [124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/124/) — "And how much does it cost?" asked the lady. - [125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/125/) — "Five hundred roubles altogether." - [126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/126/) — "Well, then, there's your money; make a young woman of me." - [127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/127/) — The Demon took the money; then he sent the lady's coachman into the village. - [128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/128/) — "Go," says he, "and bring me here two buckets full of milk." - [129](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/129/) — After that he took a pair of tongs, caught hold of the lady by the feet, flung her into the furnace, and burnt her up; nothing was left of her but her bare bones. - [130](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/130/) — When the buckets of milk were brought, he emptied them into a large tub, then he collected all the bones and flung them into the milk. - [131](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/131/) — Just fancy! at the end of about three minutes the lady emerged from the milk--alive, and young, and beautiful! — checked by a teacher - [132](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/132/) — Well, she got into her carriage and drove home. - [133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/133/) — There she went straight to her husband, and he stared hard at her, but didn't know she was his wife. - [134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/134/) — "What are you staring at?" says the lady. " - [135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/135/) — I'm young and elegant, you see, and I don't want to have an old husband! - [136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/136/) — Be off at once to the smithy, and get them to make you young; if you don't, I won't so much as acknowledge you!" - [137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/137/) — There was no help for it; off set the seigneur. - [138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/138/) — But by that time the Smith had returned home, and had gone into the smithy. - [139](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/139/) — He looked about; the journeyman wasn't to be seen. - [140](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/140/) — He searched and searched, he enquired and enquired, never a thing came of it; not even a trace of the youth could be found. - [141](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/141/) — He took to his work by himself, and was hammering away, when at that moment up drove the seigneur, and walked straight into the smithy. - [142](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/142/) — "Make a young man of me," says he. - [143](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/143/) — "Are you in your right mind, Barin? — checked by a teacher - [144](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/144/) — How can one make a young man of you?" - [145](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/145/) — "Come, now! you know all about that." - [146](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/146/) — "I know nothing of the kind." - [147](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/147/) — "You lie, you scoundrel! - [148](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/148/) — Since you made my old woman young, make me young too; otherwise, there will be no living with her for me." - [149](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/149/) — "Why I haven't so much as seen your good lady." - [150](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/150/) — "Your journeyman saw her, and that's just the same thing. - [151](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/151/) — If he knew how to do the job, surely you, an old hand, must have learnt how to do it long ago. - [152](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/152/) — Come, now, set to work at once. - [153](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/153/) — If you don't, it will be the worse for you. - [154](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/154/) — I'll have you rubbed down with a birch-tree towel." - [155](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/155/) — The Smith was compelled to try his hand at transforming the seigneur. - [156](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/156/) — He held a private conversation with the coachman as to how his journeyman had set to work with the lady, and what he had done to her, and then he thought:-- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/) **2** - ← previous: [Chapter I. 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