Between Werrel and Soist there lived a man whose name was Knoist, and he had three sons. One was blind, the other
lame1, and the third
stark-naked(一丝不挂的).
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
mighty2 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
chapel3 in the chapel was a
sexton(教堂司事) made of beech-wood and a box-wood parson, who dealt out holy-water with
cudgels(棍棒).
"How truly happy is that one, Who can from holy water run!"