Oldal 198 [198]
158 GRIMM’S FAIRY TALES.
makes him dance again, and does not leave off till he is beaten
to the earth, and asks pardon. Just look here, with this stick
I have recovered the table and the ass which the thieving land¬
lord had taken from my two brothers. Now, let them both
be sent for, and bid all the neighbours too, and they shall eat
and drink to their hearts’ content, and I will fill their pockets
with gold.”
The old tailor could not quite believe in such a thing, but
he called his sons and all the neighbours together. Then the
turner brought in the ass, opened a cloth before him, and said
to his brother,
‘* Now, my dear brother, speak to him.” And the miller
said, “ Bricklebrit !” and immediately the cloth was covered
with gold pieces, until they had all got more than they could
carry away. (I tell you this because it is a pity you were not
there.) Then the turner set down the table, and said,
‘Now, my dear brother, speak to it.” And the joiner
said, " Table, be covered !”-and directly it was covered, and
set forth plentifully with the richest dishes. ‘Then they held a
feast such as had never taken place in the tailor’s house before,
and the whole company remained through the night, merry and
content.
The tailor after that locked up in a cupboard his needle
and thread, his yard-measure and goose, and lived ever after
with his three sons in great joy and splendour.
But what became of the goat, the unlucky cause of the
tailor’s sons being driven out? I willtell you. She felt sc
ashamed of her bald head that she ran into a fox’s hole anc
hid herself’ When the fox came home he caught sight of twc
great eyes staring at him out of the darkness, and was ver
frightened and ran away. <A bear met him, and seeing that he
looked very disturbed, asked him, —
‘‘ What is the matter, brother fox, that you should look lik.
that 2?”
“Oh dear,” answered the fox, “a grisly beast is sitting 1
my hole, and he stared at me with fiery eyes!”
“We will soon drive him out,” said the bear ; and went t "
the hole and looked in, but when he caught sight of the fler —
eyes he likewise felt great terror seize him, and not wishing tr
have anything to do with so grisly a beast, he made off. HB.