"What I give you I lose myself, so be off with you."Īnd leaving the little man standing there, he went off. But the second son spoke out plainly, saying, The little old grey man met him also, and begged for a little bit of cake and a drink of wine.
That was what came of the little grey man.Īfterwards the second son went into the wood, and the mother gave to him, as to the eldest, a pancake and a flask of wine. Then he began to fell a tree, but he had not been at it long before he made a wrong stroke, and the hatchet hit him in the arm, so that he was obliged to go home and get it bound up. "Give you my cake and my wine? I haven't got any be off with you."Īnd leaving the little man standing there, he went off. "Give me a bit of cake out of your pocket, and let me have a drink of your wine I am so hungry and thirsty." When he came into the forest a little old grey man met him, who wished him good day, and said, It happened one day that the eldest son wished to go into the forest to cut wood, and before he went his mother gave him a delicious pancake and a flask of wine, that he might not suffer from hunger or thirst.
HERE was a man who had three sons, the youngest of whom was called the Simpleton, and was despised, laughed at, and neglected, on every occasion.
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