the advice pleased the bailiff, and the head-servant was quite willing to go down the well. when he was standing down below at the bottom, they rolled down the largest mill-stone and thought they had broken his skull, but he cried, "chase away those hens from the well, they are scratching in the sand up there, and throwing the grains into my eyes, so that i can’t see." so the bailiff cried, "sh-sh," and pretended to frighten the hens away. when the head-servant had finished his work, he climbed up and said, "just look what a beautiful neck-tie i have on,"