“"I have a great fish-pond," said the King. " Thou must go to it to-morrow morning and clear it of all mud until it is as bright as a mirror, and fill it with every kind of fish." The next morning the King gave him a glass shovel and said, " The fish-pond must be done by six o'clock." So he went away, and when he came to the fish-pond he stuck his shovel in the mud and it broke in two, then he stuck his hoe in the mud, and broke it also.”

— Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 113 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan