“The eldest then went to her bed and tapped it ; it immediately sank into the earth, and one after the other they descended through the opening, the eldest going first. The soldier, who had watched everything, tarried no longer, put on his little cloak, and went down last with the youngest. Half-way down the steps, he just trod a little on her dress ; she was terrified at that, and cried out, " What is that ? who is pulling at my dress ?”

— Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 133 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan