"How?" asked Ellen.
Then the gander told his plan, while Ellen and all the five pigs listened.
"Good, good," cried the pigs when they had heard it, and they clapped their hoofs and leaped up into the air.
Ellen, too, thought it a good plan and said she would do everything as the gander told her.
The pigs showed her where the goat lived, and then they ran back home, for the gander said it would be better for Ellen and him to go to see the goat by themselves.
It was in a sort of a cave under a hillock that he lived. The cave had but one window and that was only a hole through the earth, but it had a doorway and a wooden door.
There Ellen knocked and a rough voice within asked, "Who is that knocking at my door?"
And Ellen answered, "Some one who never was here before."
Again the rough voice spoke: