“Yes, but how shall I get out?”
“Oh, just stick up your tail and I will pull you out!”
So Reinecke seized the Hedgehog by the ear and tossed him up out of the den. Then he called upon him to keep his word. “Hello there, Gossip, now pull me out!”
“Do you know what,” answered the Hedgehog, “I’ll tell you something. I have only a threefold understanding, and yet I found a way of helping myself. Now do you help yourself with your seventy-sevenfold understanding.”
By this time a moujik came along, and finding the Fox in the den he made short work with him. But the Hedgehog crept away through the thicket with his threefold understanding, while Reinecke, with all his seventy-sevenfold understanding, was carried off by the moujik.
“Reinecke was too proud of himself,” said the little boy.
“It is a great sin to be proud,” observed the grandmother. “The pop said so on Sunday in church.”
There was a pause. Then the little boy said coaxingly:
“You are tired yet, little grandmother!”