“Slap, bang! here I am!” he shouted. “See what I have just found? Such things are not to be picked up every day on the road!”

Blockhead Hans and the Dead Crow

The brothers turned round to learn what in the world he could have found.

“Simpleton!” they said, “that cracked old shoe is absolutely worthless. Are you going to take that to the princess?”

“Of course I shall,” Blockhead Hans replied, and the brothers laughed and rode along.

But the lad on the goat soon brought them to a standstill by hopping off his goat and shouting: “Hurrah! Here’s the best treasure of all!”