Atondido Stories
turned into a goat. Then when the landlady and her two daugh-
ters tasted it they, too, turned into goats.
He fed the cook and the serving maid some of the other
leaves and they turned back into themselves. But the other three
he left as goats.
He made halters for them and then he hitched them up and
drove off.
He drove on and on until he came to a town where the king
was building himself a castle. Now this king was his brother
who had eaten the magic bird’s heart. The king’s workmen were
hauling stone for the new castle, so he decided to put his goats
to work hauling stone. He loaded his cart heavier than all the
other carts.
The king noticed him and recognized him and asked him
where he got those goats. So he told the king the whole story.
The king thought the goats had been punished long enough and
begged his brother to have pity on them and restore them. He
took the king’s advice and did so.
When they were once more human beings, he married the
girl who had swallowed the gizzard. They soon became very
rich, for every morning there was a heap of golden ducats under
her head.
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