“She stayed some time with Mother Holle, and then she became sad. At first she did not know what was the matter with her, but found at length that it was home- sickness : although she was many thousand times better off here than at home, still she had a longing to be there. At last she said to the old woman, " I have a longing for home ; and however well off I am down here, I cannot stay any longer ; I must go up again to my own people."”

— Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 24 · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan