Remember, ’tis the safest thing,
To put the spoon upon the shelf,
And keep the secret to yourself!”
Then the spoon jumped up into the box on the shelf. The five and twenty little dwarfs woke up and tapped politely at the door, and asked for breakfast, but the spoon called out from its hiding place,
“If you do not go away,
I’ll box your ears again to-day!”
Then the five and twenty little dwarfs ran away as fast as their legs could carry them.
The little dwarf forgot what the spoon had said and he went about his work singing,
“Who is so merry, heigho! heigho!