` What service have you done me ? ' said she . ` Oh , you shall soon see , ' replied the raven , and with his bill he scraped away all the earth he had smeared over the blood and then flew away . In the night the man-eater got up , and followed the blood till he came to Udea 's castle . He entered through the gate which she had left open , and went on till he reached the inside of the house . But here he was stopped by the seven doors , six of wood and one of iron , and all fast locked . And he called through them ` Oh Udea , what did you see your grandfather doing ? ' ' I saw him spread silk under him , and silk over him , and lay himself down in a four-post bed . ' When he heard that , the man-eater broke in one door , and laughed and went away . And the second night he came back , and asked her again what she had seen her grandfather doing , and she answered him as before , and he broke in another door , and laughed and went away , and so each night till he reached the seventh door . Then the maiden wrote a letter to her brothers , and bound it round the neck of a pigeon , and said to it , ` Oh , thou pigeon that servedst my father and my grandfather , carry this letter to my brothers , and come back at once . ' And the pigeon flew away . It flew and it flew and it flew till it found the brothers . The eldest unfastened the letter from the pigeon 's neck , and read what his sister had written : ' I am in a great strait , my brothers . If you do not rescue me to-night , to-morrow I shall be no longer living , for the man-eater has broken open six doors , and only the iron door is left . So haste , haste , post haste . ' ` Quick , quick ! my brothers , ' cried he . ` What is the matter ? ' asked they .
` XXXXX we can not reach our sister to-night , to-morrow she will be the prey of the man-eater . '
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