What did she do but she pulls all the fire out and put it into her apron. The old door of the house was tumbling down, and she picks it up and put it on her back. So him being into a temper, he didn’t take much notice of her behind him. They travelled on, and it come very dark. They comes to an old hollow tree by the side of the road.
‘Well, my wench, I think we’ll stop here to-night.’
They goes up to the top of the old tree. After they got up in the tree, the robbers got underneath them.
‘Whatever you do, my wench, keep quiet. This is a robbers’ den.’
The robbers had plenty of meat and everything, and they prayed for a bit of fire.
She says, ‘Jack,’ she says, ‘I shall have to drop it.’
So she drops the fire out of her apron, and it goed down the hollow tree.
‘See, what a godsend that is,’ said one.
They cooked the meat as they had. ‘The Lord send me a drop of vinegar,’ says one.