So the bold fisherman agreed to try.

"Now I must transform you into a bear, and you'll have to watch the
witch and the dwarf, and take your chance of getting the belt; and
you must watch where he hides his treasure, for he is using the belt
as a means to get gold, which he hides in a cave."

And so the sailor was turned into a bear, and he went to the wood
and watched the dwarf, and saw that he hid his treasure in a cave in
some crags.

The bear had been given the power of making himself invisible, by
sitting on his haunches and rubbing his ears with his paws.

One night, when it was very boisterous, the bear felt like going to
see his sweetheart. So he went, and knocked at the door. The girl
opened the door, and shrieked when she saw the bear.

"Oh, let him in," said her old mother.

So the bear came in and asked for shelter from the storm, for he
could speak.

And he went and sat by the fire, and asked his sweetheart to brush
the snow from his coat, which she did.

"I won't do you any harm," he said; "let me sleep by the fire."

He came again the next night, and they gave him some gruel, and