“As they had been with him several years, he one day said to them, " I am old, and want to sit in the chimney- corner, go out, and whichsoever of you brings me the best horse home, to him will I give the mill, and in return for it he shall take care of me till my death." The third of the boys was, however, the drudge, who was looked on as foolish by the others ; they begrudged the mill to him, and afterwards he would not have it.”

— Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 106 · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan