"well, what’s that again?" screamed he, "haven’t i told you you ought not to cut shoes so broad? who would buy a shoe like this, which is hardly anything else but a sole? i insist on my orders being followed exactly." "master," answered the apprentice, "you may easily be quite right about the shoe being a bad one, but it is the one which you yourself cut out, and yourself set to work at. when you jumped up a while since, you knocked it off the table, and i have only just picked it up. an angel from heaven, however, would never make you believe that."