“Then said they, " Wait, and we will pay thee off ! " and arranged with each other to play him a trick. Soon after- wards when one of the maids was mowing in the garden, and saw Thumbling jumping about and creeping up and down the plants, she mowed him up quickly with the grass, tied all in a great cloth, and secretly threw it to the cows. Now amongst them there was a great black one, who swallowed him down with it without hurting him.”

— Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 45 · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan