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156 GRIMM’S FAIRY TALES.
assembled, the miller called out to them to make room, and
brought in the ass, and spread his cloth before him.
“Now, pay attention,” said he, and cried, " Bricklebrit !”
but no gold pieces came, and that showed that the animal was
not more scientific than any other ass.
So the poor miller made a long face when he saw that he
had been taken in, and begged pardon of the neighbours, who
all went home as poor as they had come. And there was
nothing for it but that the old man must take to his needle
again, and that the young one should take service with a
miller.
The third brother had bound himself apprentice to a
turner ; and as turning Is a very ingenious handicraft, it took
him a long time to learn it. His brother told him in a letter
how badly things had gone with them, and how on the last
night of their travels the landlord deprived them of their
treasures. When the young turner had learnt his trade, and
was ready to travel, his master, to reward him for his good
conduct, gave him a sack, and told him that there was a stick
inside it.
“T can hang up the sack, and it may be very useful to
me,” said the young man. " But what is the good of the
stick P”
‘“‘T will tell you,” answered the master. ‘If any one does
you any harm, and you say, ‘Stick, out of the sack !’ the stick
will jump out upon them, and will belabour them so soundly
that they shall not be able to move or to leave the place for a
week, and it will not stop until you say, ‘Stick, into the
sack !’”
The apprentice thanked him, and took up the sack and
started on his travels, and when any one attacked him he
would say, " Stick, out of the sack !” and directly out jumped
the stick, and dealt a shower of blows on the coat or jerkin,
and the back beneath, which quickly ended the affair. One
evening the young turner reached the inn where his two
brothers had been taken in. He laid his knapsack on the
table, and began to describe all the wonderful things he had
seen in the world.
“Ves,” said he, “you may talk of your self-spreading
table, gold-supplying ass, and so forth; very good things, I do .