a row.  Then he sat down at his fire and fell asleep.  On the following morning the man came to him, and, wishing to get his fifty dollars, said:  “Now you know what it is to shudder.”  “No,” he answered, “how should I?  Those fellows up there never opened their mouths, and were so stupid that they let those few old tatters they have on their bodies burn.”  Then the man saw he wouldn’t get his fifty dollars that day, and went off, saying:  “Well, I’m blessed if I ever met such a person in my life before.”

The youth went too on his way, and began to murmur to himself:  “Oh! if I could only shudder! if I could only shudder!” A carrier who was walking behind him heard these words, and asked him:  “Who are you” “I don’t know,” said the youth.  “Where do you hail from?” “I don’t know.”  “Who’s your father?” “I mayn’t say.”  “What are you constantly muttering to yourself?” “Oh!” said the youth, “I would give worlds to shudder, but no one can teach me.”  “Stuff and nonsense!” spoke the carrier; “come along with me, and I’ll soon put that right.”  The youth went with the carrier, and in the evening they reached an inn, where they were to spend the night.  Then, just as he was entering the room, he said again, quite aloud:  “Oh! if I could only shudder! if I could only shudder!” The landlord, who heard this, laughed and said:  “If that’s what you’re sighing for, you shall be given every opportunity here.”  “Oh! hold your tongue!” said the landlord’s wife; “so many people have paid for their curiosity with their lives, it were a thousand pities if those beautiful eyes were never again to behold daylight.”  But the youth said:  “No matter how difficult, I insist on learning it; why, that’s what I’ve set out to do.”  He left the landlord no peace till he told him that in the neighborhood stood a haunted castle, where one could easily learn to shudder if one only kept watch in it for three nights.  The King had promised the man who dared to do this thing his daughter as wife, and she was the most beautiful maiden under the sun.  There was also much treasure hid in the castle, guarded by evil spirits, which would then be free, and was sufficient to make a poor man more than rich.  Many had already gone in, but so far none had ever come out again.  So the youth went to the King and spoke:  “If I were allowed, I should much like to watch for three nights in the castle.”  The King looked at him, and because he pleased him, he said:  “You can ask for three things, none of them living, and those you may take with you into the castle.”  Then he answered:  “Well, I shall beg for a fire, a turning lathe, and a carving bench with the knife attached.”