Chương Chương 128 · Knoist and his Three Sons

. Knoist and his Three Sons

Between Werrel and Soist there lived a man whose name was Knoist, and

he had three sons. One was blind, the other lame, and the third

stark-naked. Once on a time they went into a field, and there they saw

a hare. The blind one shot it, the lame one caught it, the naked one

put it in his pocket. Then they came to a mighty big lake, on which

there were three boats, one sailed, one sank, the third had no bottom

to it. They all three got into the one with no bottom to it. Then they

came to a mighty big forest in which there was a mighty big tree; in

the tree was a mighty big chapel in the chapel was a sexton made of

beech-wood and a box-wood parson, who dealt out holy-water with

cudgels.

“How truly happy is that one

Who can from holy water run!”