“What do I hear?” cried the tailor, and ran upstairs and said to the youth, “ Hollo , thou liar: thou saidest the goat had had enough, and hast let her hunger!” and in his anger he took the yard-measure from the wall, and drove him out with blows.

Next day it was the turn of the second son, who looked out for a place in the fence of the garden, where nothing but good herbs grew, and the goat cleared them all off. At night when he wanted to go home, he asked, “Goat, art thou satisfied?” The goat answered,

“I have eaten so much,

Not a leaf more I’ll touch, meh! meh!”

“I have eaten so much, Not a leaf more I’ll touch, meh! meh!”