“" said the little tailor, " to have such a great mouth, and not be able to crack a small nut ! " Then he took the pebble and nimbly put a nut in his mouth in the place of it, and crack, it was in two ! "I must try the thing again," said the bear ; " when I watch you, I then think I ought to be able to do it too." So the tailor once more gave him a pebble, and the bear tried and tried to bite into it with all the strength of his body.”

— Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 114 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan