'Clear the way there!' I cried fiercely; 'the beast is wild, and will make nothing of running over you.' "'Ay, ay,' cried the imp with a snarl, and snorting out a laugh still more frightfully idiotic; 'pay me, first pay what you owe me.

I stopped your fine little nag for you; without my help, both you and he would be now sprawling below there in that stony ravine.

Hu! from what a horrible plunge I've saved you!' "'Well, don't make any more faces,' said I, 'but take your money and be off, though every word you say is false.

It was the brook there, you miserable thing, and not you, that saved me,' and at the same time I dropped a piece of gold into his wizard cap, which he had taken from his head while he was begging before me.
"I then trotted off and left him, but he screamed after me; and on a sudden, with inconceivable quickness, he was close by my side.

I started my horse into a gallop.