“He sat down and was sad, then all at once he saw that there was a trap-door close by the feather. He raised it up, found some steps, and went down them, and then he came to another door, knocked at it, and heard somebody inside calling, "Little green maiden small, Hopping hither and thither; Hop to the door, And quickly see who is there." The door opened, and he saw a great, fat toad sitting, and round about her a crowd of little toads.”

— Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 63 · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan