“But the hunts- man had paid heed to their words, and as soon as they were gone, he rose and climbed up to the summit of the mountain, and when he had sat there a while, a cloud floated towards him, caught him up, carried him away, and travelled about for a long time in the heavens. Then it sank lower, and let itself down on a great cabbage- garden, girt round by walls, so that he came softly to the ground on cabbages and vegetables.”

— Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 122 · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan