How did the crofter tempt the peddler to steal his money? How did it change the peddler’s life?

The crofter was a lonely man. He was more than happy when the peddler knocked at his door. He shared his confidence with him and told him that he had thirty kronor in a leather pouch. The peddler stole thirty kronor from the crofter’s house, but he realized that he dare not continue on the public highway, and must turn off the road into the woods. During the first few hours, this caused him no difficulty. Later in the day, it became worse, for it was a big and confusing forest which he had gotten into. He tried to be sure to walk in a definite direction, but the paths twisted back and forth so strangely that he walked on, without coming to the end of the forest and realised that he had been caught in a rattrap. He was no more a free person. He had to be cautions none. On hearing the sound of the hammer, he moved towards it and reached an iron mill. The master’s daughter Edla took him home for Christmas Eve. She showed kindness and humane feelings towards him which changed him altogether. He returned the thirty kronor to Edla and became a reformed man as he had been risen to the status of a captain.