His master gives him a magical ass who is able to produce gold out of its mouth and behind at the command of "Bricklebrit!" Just like the oldest son, the second son decides to travel home and happens to visit the same inn his brother did. The second son goes to work for a miller. When the son arrives home and tries to show the powers of the table to his father nothing happens, which upsets his father once again. At night the inn keeper steals the table and switches it for a normal table, without the son being aware. On his way he visits a local inn, where he demonstrates the powers of the magic table. The son decides to travel home and show his father what he learned and earned. Whenever he says "Table, Deck Yourself" the table decks itself with the finest food and wine. After his service his master gave him a magic table as a sign of gratitude. The first one went to a maker of furniture and learned the craft. The story then follows each son individually.
The tailor is left alone in his house longing for his sons' return. He takes his razor, shaves the goat bare and uses his whip to drive it out of his house. Only when the father goes out to feed the goat himself and discovers that the creature still claims it hasn't eaten enough does he realize he misjudged his sons. This pattern repeats itself with the second oldest and youngest son too, who are also falsely blamed by the goat for not feeding it enough and as a result are kicked out of the house as well. However, when they returned home the goat claimed the opposite, causing the tailor to get upset and drive his son out of the house. At the end of the day the son asked the goat whether it had eaten enough and the animal confirmed this. The oldest son was given the task to let the animal graze at the finest grass fields. Plot Ī tailor had three sons who were all fed by the milk of their goat. The tale is classified in the Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as tale type ATU 563, "The Table, the Ass, and the Stick", as well as 212, "The Lying Goat". The original German name is Tischlein deck dich, Goldesel und Knüppel aus dem Sack.
" The Wishing-Table, the Gold-Ass, and the Cudgel in the Sack" is a fairytale by the Brothers Grimm. The Wishing-Table, the Gold-Ass, and the Cudgel in the SackĪTU 563 (The Table, the Ass, and the Stick), 212 (The Lying Goat) Illustration from a late 19th century fairy tale book. The youngest brother returns home with the table, the donkey and the stick.
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