บทที่ บทที่ 108 · The Wilful Child

. The Wilful Child

Once upon a time there was a child who was willful, and would not do at

her mother wished. For this reason God had no pleasure in her, and let

her become ill, and no doctor could do her any good, and in a short

time she lay on her death-bed. When she had been lowered into her

grave, and the earth was spread over her, all at once her arm came out

again, and stretched upwards, and when they had put it in and spread

fresh earth over it, it was all to no purpose, for the arm always came

out again. Then the mother herself was obliged to go to the grave, and

strike the arm with a rod, and when she had done that, it was drawn in,

and then at last the child had rest beneath the ground.