Tind. The dwarfs came flocking around in little troops, leaving their work of digging out precious ores, eager for the ham. Let him have the old mill," said some of the newcomers, "it is quite out of order, and he doesn't know how to use it. Let him have it, and we will have the ham." So the bargain was made. The poor man took the old hand mill, which was a little thing not halr so large as the ham, and went back to the woods. Here the old man showed him how to use it. All this had taken up a great deal of time, and it was midnight before he reached home. "Where in the world have you been?" said his wife. "Here I have been waiting and waiting, and we have no wood to make a fire, nor anything to put into the porridge pot for our Christmas supper.