` Skins ! skins ! ' they cried mockingly ; yes , we will tan YOUR skin for you ! Out of the town with him ! ' they shouted ; and Big Klaus had to hurry off as quickly as he could , if he wanted to save his life . ` Aha ! ' said he when he came home , ` Little Klaus shall pay dearly for this . I will kill him ! ' Little Klaus ' grandmother had just died . Though she had been very unkind to him , he was very much distressed , and he took the dead woman and laid her in his warm bed to try if he could not bring her back to life . There she lay the whole night , while he sat in the corner and slept on a chair , which he had often done before . And in the night as he sat there the door opened , and Big Klaus came in with his axe . He knew quite well where Little Klaus 's bed stood , and going up to it he struck the grandmother on the head just where he thought Little Klaus would be . ` There ! ' said he . ` Now you wo n't get the best of me again ! ' And he went home . ` What a very wicked man ! ' thought Little Klaus . ` He was going to kill me !
It was a good thing XXXXX my grandmother that she was dead already , or else he would have killed her ! '
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