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The youngest brother likewise met a man who asked him what he

wished to do. 'Would not you like,' said he, 'to be a tailor?'

'Oh, no!' said the young man; 'sitting cross-legged from morning

to night, working backwards and forwards with a needle and goose,

will never suit me.' 'Oh!' answered the man, 'that is not my sort

of tailoring; come with me, and you will learn quite another kind

of craft from that.' Not knowing what better to do, he came into

the plan, and learnt tailoring from the beginning; and when he

left his master, he gave him a needle, and said, 'You can sew

anything with this, be it as soft as an egg or as hard as steel;

and the joint will be so fine that no seam will be seen.'

After the space of four years, at the time agreed upon, the four

brothers met at the four cross-roads; and having welcomed each

other, set off towards their father's home, where they told him

all that had happened to them, and how each had learned some

craft.