... embraced him and said: ‘I am Iron Hans, and was
by enchantment a wild man, but you have set me free; all the treasures which
I possess, shall be your property.’
IRON HANS
There was once upon ... none of them caught it but he, only as soon
as he had it he galloped away.
On the second day Iron Hans equipped him as a white knight, and gave him
a white horse. Again he was the onl...
... called Crabb, who
drove with two oxen a load of wood to the town, and sold it to a
doctor for two talers. When the money was being counted out to
him, it so happened that the doctor was sitting
... man’s beard. ‘Now I have you,’ said the
youth. ‘Now it is your turn to die.’ Then he seized an iron bar and beat the
old man till he moaned and entreated him to stop, when he would give him ... support me.’ ‘Learn what you will,’ spoke the father, ‘it is all the same
to me. Here are fifty talers for you. Take these and go into the wide world,
and tell no one from whence you come, and .....
... CLEVER HANS
The mother of Hans said: ‘Whither away, Hans? ’ Hans answered:
‘To Gretel.’ ‘Behave well, Hans. ’ ‘Oh, I’ll behave well. Goodbye,
mother.’ ‘Goodbye, Hans. ’ Hans comes to Gretel. ... day, Hans. What do you bring that is good?’ ‘I
bring nothing, I want to have something given me.’ Gretel presents
Hans with a needle, Hans says: ‘Goodbye, Gretel.’ ‘Goodbye,
Hans....
... so vain that she could not bear to think
that anyone could be handsomer than she was. She had a fairy looking-
glass, to which she used to go, and then she would gaze upon herself in it,
and