One evening, a handsome youth came up to them.
"Good evening!" he said. "I am so tired, and it is getting dark. If you please, may I spend the night under your roof?"
"Of course you may, only tonight you must know that something terrible is going to happen to us! Three years ago, we took a cow from a Monster. He told us we could keep the cow for three years, but at the end of that time he could come and ask us some questions. If we answer those questions correctly, then the cow will be ours to keep, but if we can't then we will become the Monster's prisoners forever. So if you stay with us tonight, be careful that no harm comes to you!"
"I see," said the youth. "Well, if it is all right with you, I'd just as soon stay the night." And so he did.
Exactly at midnight, a loud knock was heard at the door.
"Who's there?"
"It is I, the Monster! Three years have passed. The time has come to answer my questions!"
"We'll never be able to answer them!" wailed the poor worker and his wife, clutching(紧握) at each other's shoulders.
Suddenly, the youth stepped toward the door. He said to them, "Don't worry, I'll answer for you."
"I'm here, waiting!" growled the Monster outside.
"And I'm here also," calmly answered the youth behind the door.
"Very well, then," said the monster. "Where are you from?"
"I'm from the other side of the sea."
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