‘Hallo!’ he cried to him, ‘what are you seeking?’
‘I want water to drink, I’m so thirsty,’ replied the man.
‘Well, there’s a whole lake in front of you; why don’t you drink some of that?’
‘Do you call that enough?’ answered the other. ‘Why, I should drink it up in one gulp.’
‘Well, come with us in the ship.’
The comrades in the flying ship meet the drinker
And so the mighty drinker was added to the company; and the ship flew farther, and even farther, till again the Simpleton looked out, and this time he saw a man dragging a bundle of wood, walking through the forest beneath them.
‘Hallo!’ he shouted to him, ‘why are you carrying wood through a forest?’