as soon as the dwarf had recovered from his first fright he cried with his shrill voice, "could you not have done it more carefully! you dragged at my brown coat so that it is all torn and full of holes, you helpless clumsy creatures!" then he took up a sack full of precious stones, and slipped away again under the rock into his hole. the girls, who by this time were used to his thanklessness, went on their way and did their business in the town.