“But he was silent, and she gave him a box on the ear, on which his head fell down. Marlinchen was terrified, and began crying and screaming, and ran to her mother, and said, " Alas, mother, I have knocked my brother's head off' " and she wept and wept and could not be comforted. " Marlinchen," said the mother, "what hast thou done? but be quiet and let no one know it ; it cannot be helped now, we will make him into black-puddings."”

— Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 47 · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan