When the dwarf perceived what they were about he yelled to them : `` Do you call that manners , you toad-stools ! to disfigure a fellow 's face ? It was n't enough that you shortened my beard before , but you must now needs cut off the best bit of it . I ca n't appear like this before my own people . I wish you 'd been in Jericho first . '' Then he fetched a sack of pearls that lay among the rushes , and without saying another word he dragged it away and disappeared behind a stone . It happened that soon after this the mother sent the two girls to the town to buy needles , thread , laces , and ribbons . Their road led over a heath where huge boulders of rock lay scattered here and there . While trudging along they saw a big bird hovering in the air , circling slowly above them , but always descending lower , till at last it settled on a rock not far from them . Immediately afterward they heard a sharp , piercing cry . They ran forward , and saw with horror that the eagle had pounced on their old friend the dwarf , and was about to carry him off . The tender-hearted children seized hold of the little man , and struggled so long with the bird that at last he let go his prey . When the dwarf had recovered from the first shock he screamed in his screeching voice : `` Could n't you have treated me more carefully ? You have torn my thin little coat all to shreds , useless , awkward hussies that you are ! '' Then he took a bag of precious stones and vanished under the rocks into his cave . The girls were accustomed to his ingratitude , and went on their way and did their business in town . On their way home , as they were again passing the heath , they surprised the dwarf pouring out his precious stones on an open space , for he had thought no one would pass by at so late an hour . The evening sun shone on the glittering stones , and they glanced and gleamed so beautifully that the children stood still and gazed on them . `` What are you standing there gaping for ? '' screamed the dwarf , and his ashen-gray face became scarlet with rage .
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