` Now you had better stop that , ' said Big Klaus , ` for if you say it once more I will give your horse such a crack on the head that it will drop down dead on the spot ! ' ' I really wo n't say it again ! ' said Little Klaus . But as soon as more people passed by , and nodded him good-morning , he became so happy in thinking how well it looked to have five horses ploughing his field that , cracking his whip , he called out ` Gee-up , my five horses ! ' ` I 'll see to your horses ! ' said Big Klaus ; and , seizing an iron bar , he struck Little Klaus ' one horse such a blow on the head that it fell down and died on the spot . ` Alas ! Now I have no horse ! ' said Little Klaus , beginning to cry . Then he flayed the skin off his horse , dried it , and put it in a sack , which he threw over his shoulder , and went into the town to sell it . He had a long way to go , and had to pass through a great dark forest . A dreadful storm came on , in which he lost his way , and before he could get on to the right road night came on , and it was impossible to reach the town that evening . Right in front of him was a large farm-house . The window-shutters were closed , but the light came through the chinks . ' I should very much like to be allowed to spend the night there , ' thought Little Klaus ; and he went and knocked at the door . The farmer 's wife opened it , but when she heard what he wanted she told him to go away ; her husband was not at home , and she took in no strangers . ` Well , I must lie down outside , ' said Little Klaus ; and the farmer 's wife shut the door in his face . Close by stood a large haystack , and between it and the house a little out-house , covered with a flat thatched roof . ' I can lie down there , ' thought Little Klaus , looking at the roof ; ` it will make a splendid bed , if only the stork wo n't fly down and bite my legs . ' For a live stork was standing on the roof , where it had its nest .
So Little Klaus crept up XXXXX the out-house , where he lay down , and made himself comfortable for the night .
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