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332 grimm's household stories.
landlord thereupon went to call the servant-maid, but she had escaped
out of the backdoor as soon as she saw the Surgeons coming, and did not
return. The three now threatened to set fire to the house it" the landlord
did not give them a large sum of money, and the poor man was compelled
to give them all he could scrape together, with which they went away.
But although they had enough to last them their lifetime, each would
rather have had his own hand, heart, or eyes, than all the money in the
world.
THREE LITTLE TALES ABOUT TOADS.
Once upon a time there was a little Girl, whose mother gave her every
day at noon a little basin of milk and bread, which she used to eat,
sitting outside the house in the court. Once when she began to eat,
there came a little Toad out of a crack in the wall, whicli put its head
into the milk, and drank some. The Child was pleased with this ; and
the next day, and every day when she sat there with her basin, and the
Toad did not make its appearance, she used to call it thus : —
" Toadie, Toadie, quickly come;
Hither come, my pet;
And you shall have a little crumb
And milk before you set !"
At these words the Toad would run and squat itself down to its