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and they gave her a pail with no bottom to do
it with.

And Kva would have been in a sad way if she
had not heard the jackdaw say, as he stood by the

pool;
‘ 'Our new servant is caught at last; for, if she

did take me for a broom last week, she will never
have sense enough to know that if she shakes her

pail over the pool and says ‘ Water, go,’ it will
empty itself, and then c Water, come,' and she

will have no more trouble.1 *
And then out hopped the jackdaw, and never

knew that Eva heard him. And she found he
was right j and she noticed, too, that this week

they only pulled out the little green bird’s wing-
feathers, and never touched his tail.

She did her work this time without any trouble.
At the end of the week it was the same thing over

again about the wages, and again Eva went to the
Toad-Woman, and was told what she should do.

So she said to the Green Frog, “ My coat is
useless as long as it has a hole in it. You can
give me the jackdaw’s best cravat to mend it

with. ’ f