ONCE on a time there was a man whose name was Gudbrand; he had a farm
which lay far, far away upon a hill-side, and so they called him
Gudbrand on the Hill-side.
Now, you must know this man and his goodwife lived so happily together,
and understood one another so well, that all the husband did the wife
thought so well done there was nothing like it in the world, and she was
always glad whatever he turned his hand to. The farm was their own land,
and they had a hundred dollars lying at the bottom of their chest, and
two cows tethered up in a stall in their farm-yard.