'Now, who are you ?' quoth the Carpenter-lad, 'who come to disturb his rest ?' 'Lo! I have killed all living things for twenty miles round this place; and I'll kill you, too,' it roared, 'and crack your bones to eat.' So they fought and fought and fought till he killed the dragon at last.
Then he hid the body behind a bush lest the others should be afraid, and roused Rasalu from out his sleep to take his share of the watch; while he in turn by the Goldsmith-lad lay down to take his rest.
"And while they slept and Rasalu waked a THING slid out from the trees; an awful THING! No man could tell th' unspeakable horror of it.

But Rasalu smiled in its face of dread, and laughed in, its horrible eyes.
'Pray, who are you to disturb our rest, and why do you dare to come ?' 'Lo! I have killed all living things for twenty times twenty miles, and I will kill you, upstart boy, and crack your bones to dust.' "So they fought and fought and fought, and Rasalu drew his bow, and the arrow fled like the wind and pierced the Awful Horror through.

Then it fled to a cave close by, with Rasalu at its heels.

So they fought and fought and fought till the dawn showed clear in the sky, and the Awful Horror gave up with a groan and rolled on its side and died.

Now, just as Rasalu wiped his sword the sleepers awoke from their sleep.