When he did awake he felt very hungry and turned to eat his bread , but his brothers cried out , ` You ate your loaf in your sleep , you glutton , and you may starve as long as you like , but you wo n't get a scrap of ours . ' Ferko was at a loss to understand how he could have eaten in his sleep , but he said nothing , and fasted all that day and the next night . But on the following morning he was so hungry that he burst into tears , and implored his brothers to give him a little bit of their bread . Then the cruel creatures laughed , and repeated what they had said the day before ; but when Ferko continued to beg and beseech them , the eldest said at last , ` If you will let us put out one of your eyes and break one of your legs , then we will give you a bit of our bread . ' At these words poor Ferko wept more bitterly than before , and bore the torments of hunger till the sun was high in the heavens ; then he could stand it no longer , and he consented to allow his left eye to be put out and his left leg to be broken . When this was done he stretched out his hand eagerly for the piece of bread , but his brothers gave him such a tiny scrap that the starving youth finished it in a moment and besought them for a second bit . But the more Ferko wept and told his brothers that he was dying of hunger , the more they laughed and scolded him for his greed . So he endured the pangs of starvation all that day , but when night came his endurance gave way , and he let his right eye be put out and his right leg broken for a second piece of bread . After his brothers had thus successfully maimed and disfigured him for life , they left him groaning on the ground and continued their journey without him . Poor Ferko ate up the scrap of bread they had left him and wept bitterly , but no one heard him or came to his help . Night came on , and the poor blind youth had no eyes to close , and could only crawl along the ground , not knowing in the least where he was going . But when the sun was once more high in the heavens , Ferko felt the blazing heat scorch him , and sought for some cool shady place to rest his aching limbs . He climbed to the top of a hill and lay down in the grass , and as he thought under the shadow of a big tree . But it was no tree he leant against , but a gallows on which two ravens were seated . The one was saying to the other as the weary youth lay down , ` Is there anything the least wonderful or remarkable about this neighbourhood ? ' ' I should just think there was , ' replied the other ; ` many things that do n't exist anywhere else in the world . There is a lake down there below us , and anyone who bathes in it , though he were at death 's door , becomes sound and well on the spot , and those who wash their eyes with the dew on this hill become as sharp-sighted as the eagle , even if they have been blind from their youth . ' ` Well , ' answered the first raven , ` my eyes are in no want of this healing bath , for , Heaven be praised , they are as good as ever they were ; but my wing has been very feeble and weak ever since it was shot by an arrow many years ago , so let us fly at once to the lake that I may be restored to health and strength again . ' And so they flew away . Their words rejoiced Ferko 's heart , and he waited impatiently till evening should come and he could rub the precious dew on his sightless eyes .
At last it began to grow dusk , and the XXXXX sank behind the mountains ; gradually it became cooler on the hill , and the grass grew wet with dew .
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