“On this Hans goes back to his son, and tells him he is to learn thieving, and that the Lord God had said so. So he goes with his son to seek a man who is acquainted with thieving. They walk a long time and come into a great forest, where stands a little house with an old woman in it. Hans says, " Do you know of a man who is acquainted with thieving ? " " You can learn that here quite well," says the woman, " my son is a master of it."”

— Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 68 · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan