“Then the girl threw behind her a looking-glass which formed a hill of mirrors, and was so slippery that it was impossible for the nix to cross it. Then she thought, " I will go home quickly and fetch my axe, and cut the hill of glass in half." Long before she returned, however, and had hewn through the glass, the children had escaped to a great distance, and the water- nix was obliged to betake herself to her well again.”

— Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 79 · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan