“Moreover, they did not awake when he went up to them, so he stepped over them, climbed the fence, and got safely into the garden. There, in the very middle of it, stood the tree of life, and the red apples were shining upon the branches. He climbed up the trunk to the top, and as he was about to reach out for an apple, he saw a ring hanging before it ; but he thrust his hand through that without any difficulty, and gathered the apple.”

— Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 121 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan