“" No," said the boy, " I will not do that ; the King has forbidden it," and ran away. I'he next day he again went and asked for his ball ; the wild man said, " Open my door," but the boy would not. On the third day the King had ridden out hunting, and the boy went once more and said, " I cannot open the door even if I wished, for I have not the key." Then the wild man said, " It lies under thy mother's pillow, thou canst get it there."”

— Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 136 · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan