“The man smiled and said, " How can that be done, thou art far too small to lead the horse by the reins ? " " That's of no consequence, father, if my mother will only harness it, I will sit in the horse's ear, and call out to him how he is to go." " Well," answered the man, " for once we will try it." When the time came, the mother harnessed the horse, and placed Thumbling in its ear, and then the little creature cried " Gee up, gee np !”

— Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 37 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan