. Stories for the household . ake haste and put that kettle upon the fire ? So—nowwater must be poured in—quite 4ull—up to the brim ! So—now morefuel—make up the fire, that the water may boil—it must boil over andover! So—I now throw the peg in. Will the King now be pleased to Soup on a Sausage-Peg. 197 dip his tail in the boiling water, and to stir it round with the said tail ?The longer the King stirs it, the more powerful will the soup costs nothing at all—no further materials are necessary, only stir itround! Cannot any one else do that ? asked the Mouse King. No, replied the Mou
. Stories for the household . ake haste and put that kettle upon the fire ? So—nowwater must be poured in—quite 4ull—up to the brim ! So—now morefuel—make up the fire, that the water may boil—it must boil over andover! So—I now throw the peg in. Will the King now be pleased to Soup on a Sausage-Peg. 197 dip his tail in the boiling water, and to stir it round with the said tail ?The longer the King stirs it, the more powerful will the soup costs nothing at all—no further materials are necessary, only stir itround! Cannot any one else do that ? asked the Mouse King. No, replied the Mouse. The power is contained only in the tailof the Mouse King. And the water boiled and bubbled, and the Mouse King stood closebeside the kettle—there was almost danger in it—and he put forth histail, as the mice do in the dairy, when they skim the cream from a pan otmilk, afterwards licking their creamy tails ; but his tail only penetratedinto the hot steam, and then he sprang hastily down from the THE MOUSE KING UNDERSTANDS HOW THE SOUP IS MADE. Of course—certainly you are my Queen, he said. Well adjournthe soup question till our golden wedding in fifty years time, so thatthe poor of my subjects, who will then be fed, may have something towhich they can look forward with pleasure for a long time. And soon the wedding was held. But many of the mice said, as theywere returning home, that it could not be really called soup on a sausage-peg, but rather soup on a mouses tail. They said that some of thestories had been very cleverly told; but the whole thing might havebeen different. /should have told it so—and so—and so ! Thus said the critics, who are always wise—after the fact. And this story went out into the wide world, everywhere; andopinions varied concerning it, but the story remained as it was. Andthats the best in great things and in small, so also with regard tosoup on a sausage-peg—not to expect any thanks for it. THE WICKED PRINCE.
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