1 So they had to spend the night with the goose.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE GOLDEN GOOSE 2 The next man he met was a countryman carrying a fine white goose.
3 The countryman then began to tell his tale, and said he was going to take the goose to a christening.
4 Dummling went and cut down the tree, and when it fell there was a goose sitting in the roots with feathers of pure gold.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE GOLDEN GOOSE 5 But they had scarcely touched the sexton when they were held fast, and now there were seven of them running behind Dummling and the goose.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE GOLDEN GOOSE 6 The next morning Dummling took the goose under his arm and set out, without troubling himself about the three girls who were hanging on to it.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE GOLDEN GOOSE 7 Now the host had three daughters, who saw the goose and were curious to know what such a wonderful bird might be, and would have liked to have one of its golden feathers.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE GOLDEN GOOSE 8 The eldest thought: 'I shall soon find an opportunity of pulling out a feather,' and as soon as Dummling had gone out she seized the goose by the wing, but her finger and hand remained sticking fast to it.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE GOLDEN GOOSE 9 When Dummling heard this, he went with his goose and all her train before the king's daughter, and as soon as she saw the seven people running on and on, one behind the other, she began to laugh quite loudly, and as if she would never stop.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE GOLDEN GOOSE