` It is all right , ' he cried ; ` now you can open it . ' But instead of opening it , the young man drove in long nails to make it tighter still ; then he took the box on his back and brought it to the king . And when the king heard that the dragon was inside , he was so excited that he would not wait one moment , but broke the lock and lifted the lid just a little way to make sure he was really there . He was very careful not to leave enough space for the dragon to jump out , but unluckily there was just room for his great mouth , and with one snap the king vanished down his wide red jaws . Then the young man married the king 's daughter and ruled over the land , but what he did with the dragon nobody knows . The Goblin and the Grocer Translated from the German of Hans Andersen . There was once a hard-working student who lived in an attic , and he had nothing in the world of his own . There was also a hard-working grocer who lived on the first floor , and he had the whole house for his own . The Goblin belonged to him , for every Christmas Eve there was waiting for him at the grocer 's a dish of jam with a large lump of butter in the middle . The grocer could afford this , so the Goblin stayed in the grocer 's shop ; and this teaches us a good deal . One evening the student came in by the back door to buy a candle and some cheese ; he had no one to send , so he came himself . He got what he wanted , paid for it , and nodded a good evening to the grocer and his wife -LRB- she was a woman who could do more than nod ; she could talk -RRB- . When the student had said good night he suddenly stood still , reading the sheet of paper in which the cheese had been wrapped . It was a leaf torn out of an old book -- a book of poetry ` There 's more of that over there ! ' said the grocer ' I gave an old woman some coffee for the book . If you like to give me twopence you can have the rest . ' ` Yes , ' said the student , ` give me the book instead of the cheese . I can eat my bread without cheese . It would be a shame to leave the book to be torn up . You are a clever and practical man , but about poetry you understand as much as that old tub over there ! '
And that sounded rude XXXXX far as the tub was concerned , but the grocer laughed , and so did the student .
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