` Hutetu ! it is terrible weather outside to-night , ' said the young fellow . ` Indeed it is , ' said the old woman . ` Can I sleep here , and have shelter for the night ? ' asked the youth . ` It would n't be good for you to sleep here , ' said the old hag , ` for if the people of the house come home and find you , they will kill both you and me . ' ` What kind of people are they then , who dwell here ? ' said the youth . ` Oh ! robbers , and rabble of that sort , ' said the old woman ; ` they stole me away when I was little , and I have had to keep house for them ever since . ' ' I still think I will go to bed , all the same , ' said the youth . ` No matter what happens , I 'll not go out to-night in such weather as this . ' ` Well , then , it will be the worse for yourself , ' said the old woman . The young man lay down in a bed which stood near , but he dared not go to sleep : and it was better that he did n't , for the robbers came , and the old woman said that a young fellow who was a stranger had come there , and she had not been able to get him to go away again . ` Did you see if he had any money ? ' said the robbers . ` He 's not one to have money , he is a tramp ! If he has a few clothes to his back , that is all . ' Then the robbers began to mutter to each other apart about what they should do with him , whether they should murder him , or what else they should do . In the meantime the boy got up and began to talk to them , and ask them if they did not want a man-servant , for he could find pleasure enough in serving them .
` Yes , ' XXXXX they , ` if you have a mind to take to the trade that we follow , you may have a place here . '
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