“But leave me alone with your dreams : if you disturb me in my sleep again you will get a box on the ear." The grandmother spoke gently to him until he fell asleep again and snored. Then she took hold of the third golden hair and pulled it out. The devil jumped up, roared out, and would have treated her ill, but she quieted him once more and said, " Who can help bad dreams? " " What was the dream, then ?" asked he, and was quite curious.”

— Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 29 · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan