` Oh , ' said he , ` why is faithlessness so great in the world ? ' and he sat down in sorrow and trouble , not knowing what to do . But the mountain belonged to fierce and huge giants , who lived on it and traded there , and he had not sat long before he saw three of them striding towards him . So he lay down as if he had fallen into a deep sleep . The giants came up , and the first pushed him with his foot , and said , ` What sort of an earthworm is that ? ' The second said , ` Crush him dead . ' But the third said contemptuously , ` It is not worth the trouble ! Let him live ; he can not remain here , and if he goes higher up the mountain the clouds will take him and carry him off . ' Talking thus they went away . But the Hunter had listened to their talk , and as soon as they had gone he rose and climbed to the summit . When he had sat there a little while a cloud swept by , and , seizing him , carried him away . It travelled for a time in the sky , and then it sank down and hovered over a large vegetable garden surrounded by walls , so that he came safely to the ground amidst cabbages and vegetables . The Hunter then looked about him , saying , ` If only I had something to eat ! I am so hungry , and it will go badly with me in the future , for I see here not an apple or pear or fruit of any kind -- nothing but vegetables everywhere . ' At last he thought , ` At a pinch I can eat a salad ; it does not taste particularly nice , but it will refresh me . ' So he looked about for a good head and ate it , but no sooner had he swallowed a couple of mouthfuls than he felt very strange , and found himself wonderfully changed . Four legs began to grow on him , a thick head , and two long ears , and he saw with horror that he had changed into a donkey . But as he was still very hungry and this juicy salad tasted very good to his present nature , he went on eating with a still greater appetite . At last he got hold of another kind of cabbage , but scarcely had swallowed it when he felt another change , and he once more regained his human form . The Hunter now lay down and slept off his weariness .
When he awoke the next morning he broke off a head of the bad and a head XXXXX the good cabbage , thinking , ` This will help me to regain my own , and to punish faithlessness . '
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