"Then I'll tell you:
'In the oven this is best, 'tis said,
That it never itself doth eat the bread.'"
And then, pointing to the wagons before the house, Amrei asked:
"What's full of holes, and yet holds? "—and without waiting for a reply, she gave the answer: "A chain!"
"Now you must let me ask you these riddles," said Damie.
And Amrei replied: "Yes, you may ask them. But do you see those sheep coming yonder? Now I know another riddle."
"No!" cried Damie, "no! Two are enough for me—I can't remember three!"
"Yes, you must hear this one too, or else I'll take the others back!"
And Damie kept repeating to himself, anxiously: "A chain," "Eat it itself," while Amrei asked:
"On which side have sheep the most wool?"—"Ba! ba! on the outside!" she sang merrily.