“The snake, how- ever, only drank the milk, and left the bread-crumbs alone. Then one day the child took its little spoon and struck the snake gently on its head with it, and said, " Eat the bread-crumbs as well, little thing." The mother, who was standing in the kitchen, heard the child talking to some one, and when she saw that she was striking a snake with her spoon, ran out with a log of wood, and killed the good little creature.”

— Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 105 · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan