The man answered, ‘No, my dear fellow. I shall take you home, and then perhaps my wife won’t scold me so much.’
Said the crane: ‘You had better come with me to my house,’ and so they went to the crane’s house.
When they got there, what do you think the crane took from the wall? He took down a sack, and he said:
‘Two out of a sack!’
Instantly two pretty lads sprang out of the sack. They brought in oak tables, which they spread with silken covers, and placed all sorts of delicious dishes and refreshing drinks on them. The man had never seen anything so beautiful in his life, and he was delighted.
Then the crane said to him, ‘Now take this sack to your wife.’
The man thanked him warmly, took the sack, and set out.
His home was a good long way off, and as it was growing dark, and he was feeling tired, he stopped to rest at his cousin’s house by the way.
The cousin had three daughters, who laid out a tempting supper, but the man would eat nothing, and said to his cousin, ‘Your supper is bad.’
‘Oh, make the best of it,’ said she, but the man only said: ‘Clear away!’ and taking out his sack he cried, as the crane had taught him: