“On the third flight lay a heap of dead men’s heads.”

“Foolish man, those were cabbages.”

“On the fourth flight, I saw fishes in a pan, which were hissing and baking themselves.” When he had said that, the fishes came and served themselves up. “And when I got to the fifth flight, I peeped through the keyhole of a door, and there, godfather, I saw you, and you had long, long horns.”

“Oh, that is a lie!” The man became alarmed, and ran out, and if he had not, who knows what the godfather would have done to him.