LITHUANIAN MYTHOLOGICAL TALES
 
 

Three Wagon-Loads of Hay

Kaukases used to bring feed. Once a man stopped at a farm and
asked for lodging for the night. The farmer took him in. At night,
he heard outside his window, "1 brought back three wagon-loads
of hay."
"Where did you put them?"
"On the bee hive."
Now he thought, "What the devil? What kind of wagon-loads
could he have put on a bee hive?"
In the morning, he went to take a look. He saw that three blades
of grass had been put on a bee hive.
So you see, the blades of grass were as filling as three wagon-
loads.

(Recorded in 1959)

 

 
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