the four took care that the moon was provided with oil, cleaned the wick, and received their weekly thaler, but they became old men, and when one of them grew ill, and saw that he was about to die, he appointed that one quarter of the moon, should, as his property, be laid in the grave with him. when he died, the mayor climbed up the tree, and cut off a quarter with the hedge-shears, and this was placed in his coffin. the light of the moon decreased, but still not visibly.