"have you not seen a stag?" "yes," answered she, "i know the stag well," and thereupon a little dog which had come out of the house with her, barked at the man violently. "wilt thou be silent, thou odious toad," said he, "or i will shoot thee dead." then the witch cried out in a passion, "what! will you slay my little dog?" and immediately transformed him, so that he lay like a stone, and his bride awaited him in vain and thought, "that which i so greatly dreaded, which lay so heavily on my heart, has come upon him!" but at home the other brother was standing by the gold-lilies, when one of them suddenly drooped.