` It really means a man who is beginning to be a monk , but in those days people sent their sons to a monastery just the same as a school . This young fellow had been to a monastery in France for a few months every year , and he was finishing his studies in the monastery close to his home here . Hugh was his name , and he had got up to go fishing hereabouts . His people owned all this valley . Hugh heard the farmer shouting , and asked him what in the world he meant . The old man spun him a wonderful tale about fairies and goblins and witches ; and I know he had n't seen a thing except rabbits and red deer all that night . -LRB- The People of the Hills are like otters -- they do n't show except when they choose . -RRB- But the novice was n't a fool . He looked down at the horse 's feet , and saw the new shoes fastened as only Weland knew how to fasten 'em . -LRB- Weland had a way of turning down the nails that folks called the Smith 's Clinch . -RRB- ' `` H 'm ! '' said the novice . `` Where did you get your horse shod ? '' ` The farmer would n't tell him at first , because the priests never liked their people to have any dealings with the Old Things . At last he confessed that the Smith had done it . `` What did you pay him ? '' said the novice . `` Penny , '' said the farmer , very sulkily . `` That 's less than a Christian would have charged , '' said the novice . `` I hope you threw a ` Thank you ' into the bargain . ''
`` No , '' XXXXX the farmer ; `` Wayland-Smith 's a heathen . ''
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