" Then
they laughed and said, "If that's all you want, you can have it." So
Two-eyes took the entrails and buried them quietly in the evening,
in front of the house-door, as the wise woman had counselled her to do.
Next morning, when they all awoke, and went to the house-door, there
stood a strangely magnificent tree with leaves of silver, and fruit of
gold hanging among them, so that in all the wide world there was nothing
more beautiful or precious. They did not know how the tree could have
come there during the night, but Two-eyes saw that it had grown up out of
the entrails of the goat, for it was standing on the exact spot where she
had buried them. Then the mother said to One-eye, "Climb up, my child,
and gather some of the fruit of the tree for us." One-eye climbed up,
but when she was about to get hold of one of the golden apples, the branch
escaped from her hands, and that happened each time, so that she could
not pluck a single apple, let her do what she might. Then said the mother,
"Three-eyes, do you climb up; you with your three eyes can look about you
better than One-eye.
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