“If they won’t have me here,” thought he, “I will see if I can find a place for myself in heaven, for I must be somewhere.” So he turned about and went onwards until he came to the door of Heaven, where he knocked. St. Peter was sitting hard by as doorkeeper.

Brother Lustig recognised him at once, and thought, “Here I find an old friend, I shall get on better.”

But St. Peter said, “I really believe that thou wantest to come into Heaven.”

“Let me in, brother; I must get in somewhere; if they would have taken me into Hell, I should not have come here.”

“No,” said St. Peter, “thou shalt not enter.”