Hans the giant decided to work as a woodcutter. On his first day, however, he was not even interested in trying to make a good impression. In the morning, when his colleagues came to wake him to start working in the woods, he just stayed in bed. When he finally did decide to get up, the first thing he did was to make chick-pea soup, and then he ate the entire potful. Chick-peas were the secret source of his enormous strength! Then off he went into the woods, pulled up the two biggest trees he could find, and loaded them onto his cart.
On the way back, Hans found the path blocked by a barrier of fallen trees.
But it only took a moment for
him to decide what to do: he
simply lifted his cart, the two trees, and the horse,
high above his head, and set
them down on the other side.
The
owner of the woodyard was delighted to see
Hans back before anybody
else, with two huge trees. Hans,
however, did not spend any time chatting. He went
back to bed.
When
the rest of the woodsmen arrived
back, they went at once to complain
to the owner. “'Hans is still in bed!” they said, “True,” said the
owner, “but while he's there he
still manages to get a little work done.” And
he pointed to the two enormous tree trunks in the woodyard.
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