“" " Yes," said he, " I know enough, and will contrive to save myself." Then he had to go back another way, through the window, secretly and with all speed to his companions. He told them how the Devil had been overreached by the old grandmother, and how he had learned the answer to the riddle from him. Then they were all joyous, and of good cheer, and took the whip and whipped so much gold for themselves that it ran all over the ground.”

— Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 125 · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan