“On the way, however, he lost one seed out of the bag. The butcher paid him justly as agreed on, and if the peasant had not lost the seed, he would have had one thaler the more. In the meantime, when he went on his way back, the seed had grown into a tree which reached up to the sky. Then thought the peasant, " As thou hast the chance, thou must just see what the angels are doing up there above, and for once have them before thine eyes."”

— Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 112 · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan