“O sheaf! my slave

This order gave:

Where a straw has been

Let a soldier be seen!”

“O sheaf! my slave This order gave: Where a straw has been Let a soldier be seen!”

Iván took the sheaf, struck it on the ground, and said what the imp had told him to. The sheaf fell asunder, and all the straws changed into soldiers, with a trumpeter and a drummer playing in front, so that there was a whole regiment.