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lash with it. This put new life into the tired animal. He galloped on at twice the speed, and soon they were far ahead of their pursuers. At last they reached the thick cloud. The horse gave a great leap into it, and they were safe beyond the dominions of the evil spirit.

When they were on the other side of the cloud, they met the stranger who had helped the boy rescue his brother.

“Do not go into the village, but go into the forest and pass the night there,” the stranger said. Then he took off his cloak and threw it over the horse’s head, and went away.

The boy took the horse into the forest and tied him to a tree and then lay down to sleep. In the morning, when he awoke, he found his brother sitting beside him, now turned back into his own form. But he was without clothing; so the boy went into the village and begged some for him, and soon he was clothed and ready to start out into the world again. The stranger met them.

“Go to your home, now, and carry the cloak I left with you last night. Throw it over your father.”

They went home, and as soon as they saw their fat'ier, they threw the cloak over him, as they had been told to do. Then the father ran out of :he house; and the moment he was outside the door he was turned into a horse, and an