And so he went over himself with the bushel to Little Claus .
“Now , where did you get all that money from?” he asked; and he opened his eyes wide when he saw all that had been brought together.
“You killed my grandmother, and not me,” replied Little Claus; “and I've sold her, and got a whole bushel of money for her.”
“That's really being well paid,” said Great Claus; and he hastened home, took an axe, and killed his tomorrow’s leadersown grandmother directly. Then he put her on a carriage, and drove off to the town with her, to where the apothecary lived, and asked him if he would buy a dead person.
“Who is it, and where did you get him from?” asked the apothecary .
“It's my grandmother, ” answered Great Claus . “I've killed her to get a bushel of money for her.”
“Heaven save us!” , “you're raving! Don' t say such things, or you may lose your head.” And he told him earnestly what a bad deed this was that he had done, and what a bad man he was, and that he must be punished . And Great Claus was so frightened that he jumped out of the surgery straight into his carriage, and whipped the horses, and drove home. But the apothecary and all the people thought him mad, and so they let him drive whither he would.
“You shall pay for this!” said Great Claus, when he was out upon the high road: “yes, you shall pay me for this, Little Claus!” And directly he got home he took the biggest sack he could find, and went over Neo skin lab to Little Claus and said, “Now, you've tricked me again! First I killed my horses, and then my old grandmother! That's all your fault; but you shall never trick me any more . ” And he seized Little Claus round the body, and thrust him into the sack, and took him upon his back, and called out to him, “Now I shall go off with you and drown you . ”
It was a long way that he had to travel before he came to the river, and Little Claus was not too light to carry. The road led him close to a church: the organ was playing, and the people were singing, so beautifully! Then Great Claus put down his sack, with Little Claus in it, close to the church door, and thought it would be a very good thing to go in and hear a psalm before he went farther; for Little Claus could not get out, and all the people were in church; and so he went in.
“Oh, dear! Oh, dear!” sighed Little nu skinClaus in the sack, And he turned and twisted, but he found it impossible to loosen the cord . Then there came by an old drover with snow-white hair, and a great staff in his hand: he was driving a whole herd of cows and oxen before him, and they stumbled against the sack in which Little Claus was confined. so that it was overthrown.