“When it was evening the two brothers came and asked how he had got on, and he said, " pretty well so far," and that he had seen no one except at mid-day when a little mannikin had come who had begged for a piece of bread, that he had given some to him, but that the mannikin had let it fall and had asked him to pick it up again ; but as he did not choose to do that, the elf had begun to lose his temper, and that he had done what he…”

— Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 91 · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan