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Looking out from his hut one day he saw three robbers fighting

and he called out to them, 'God be with you.' They stopped when

they heard the call, but looking round and seeing nobody, they

went on again with their fighting, which now became more furious.

'God be with you,' he cried again, and again they paused and

looked about, but seeing no one went back to their fighting. A

third time he called out, 'God be with you,' and then thinking he

should like to know the cause of dispute between the three men,

he went out and asked them why they were fighting so angrily with

one another. One of them said that he had found a stick, and that

he had but to strike it against any door through which he wished

to pass, and it immediately flew open. Another told him that he

had found a cloak which rendered its wearer invisible; and the

third had caught a horse which would carry its rider over any

obstacle, and even up the glass mountain.