The Man in Blue

Lucinda awoke to find her cottage covered in frost and a man curled up on the floor. The wood stove was no longer burning, and there was snow all over the floor. She looked at him with concern; had he frozen to death? He opened his twinkling blue eyes: "I'm so very thankful for your kind hospitality." Lucinda asked if she could have some of it as a thank-you gift. A wooden box containing two different types of heat appeared before her. But when she tried to open them, the old man cried out that they were 'magic'