KARIN'S THREE STORIES
"Now," said Karin, "as you have told Peik , which I did not want to tell, I'll tell you three stories all of a row, Death and the Doctor , The Way of the World , and The Pancake ." So she began with the first.
DEATH AND THE DOCTOR.
'Once on a time there was a lad, who had lived as a servant a long time with a man of the North Country. This man was a master at ale-brewing; it was so out-of-the-way good the like of it was not to be found. So, when the lad was to leave his place and the man was to pay him the wages he had earned, he would take no other pay than a keg of yule-ale. Well! he got it and set off with it, and he carried it both far and long, but the longer he carried the keg the heavier it got, and so he began to look about to see if anyone were com
