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1A certain father had two sons, the elder of who was smart and sensible, and could do everything, but the younger was
2stupid and could neither learn nor understand anything, and when people saw him they said: 'There's a fellow who will
3give his father some trouble!' When anything had to be done, it was always the elder who was forced to do it; but if his
4father bade him fetch anything when it was late, or in the night-time, and the way led through the churchyard, or any
5other dismal place, he answered: 'Oh, no father, I'll not go there, it makes me shudder!' for he was afraid. Or when
6stories were told by the fire at night which made the flesh creep, the listeners sometimes said: 'Oh, it makes us
7shudder!' The younger sat in a corner and listened with the rest of them, and could not imagine what they could mean.
8'They are always saying: "It makes me shudder, it makes me shudder!" It does not make me shudder,' thought he. 'That,
9too, must be an art of which I understand nothing!' Now it came to pass that his father said to him one day: 'Hearken to
10me, you fellow in the corner there, you are growing tall and strong, and you too must learn something by which you can
11earn your bread. Look how your brother works, but you do not even earn your salt.' 'Well, father,' he replied, 'I am
12quite willing to learn something--indeed, if it could but be managed, I should like to learn how to shudder. I don't
13understand that at all yet.' The elder brother smiled when he heard that, and thought to himself: 'Goodness, what a
14blockhead that brother of mine is! He will never be good for anything as long as he lives! He who wants to be a sickle
15must bend himself betimes.' The father sighed, and answered him: 'You shall soon learn what it is to shudder, but you
16will not earn your bread by that.' Soon after this the sexton came to the house on a visit, and the father bewailed his
17trouble, and told him how his younger son was so backward in every respect that he knew nothing and learnt nothing.
18'Just think,' said he, 'when I asked him how he was going to earn his bread, he actually wanted to learn to shudder.'
19'If that be all,' replied the sexton, 'he can learn that with me. Send him to me, and I will soon polish him.' The
20father was glad to do it, for he thought: 'It will train the boy a little.' The sexton therefore took him into his
21house, and he had to ring the church bell. After a day or two, the sexton awoke him at midnight, and bade him arise and
22go up into the church tower and ring the bell. 'You shall soon learn what shuddering is,' thought he, and secretly went
23there before him; and when the boy was at the top of the tower and turned round, and was just going to take hold of the
24bell rope, he saw a white figure standing on the stairs opposite the sounding hole. 'Who is there?' cried he, but the
25figure made no reply, and did not move or stir. 'Give an answer,' cried the boy, 'or take yourself off, you have no
26business here at night.' The sexton, however, remained standing motionless that the boy might think he was a ghost. The
27boy cried a second time: 'What do you want here?--speak if you are an honest fellow, or I will throw you down the
28steps!' The sexton thought: 'He can't mean to be as bad as his words,' uttered no sound and stood as if he were made of
29stone. Then the boy called to him for the third time, and as that was also to no purpose, he ran against him and pushed
30the ghost down the stairs, so that it fell down the ten steps and remained lying there in a corner. Thereupon he rang
31the bell, went home, and without saying a word went to bed, and fell asleep. The sexton's wife waited a long time for
32her husband, but he did not come back. At length she became uneasy, and wakened the boy, and asked: 'Do you know where
33my husband is? He climbed up the tower before you did.' 'No, I don't know,' replied the boy, 'but someone was standing
34by the sounding hole on the other side of the steps, and as he would neither give an answer nor go away, I took him for
35a scoundrel, and threw him downstairs. Just go there and you will see if it was he. I should be sorry if it were.' The
36woman ran away and found her husband, who was lying moaning in the corner, and had broken his leg. She carried him down,
37and then with loud screams she hastened to the boy's father, 'Your boy,' cried she, 'has been the cause of a great
38misfortune! He has thrown my husband down the steps so that he broke his leg. Take the good-for-nothing fellow out of
39our house.' The father was terrified, and ran thither and scolded the boy. 'What wicked tricks are these?' said he. 'The
40devil must have put them into your head.' 'Father,' he replied, 'do listen to me. I am quite innocent. He was standing
41there by night like one intent on doing evil. I did not know who it was, and I entreated him three times either to speak
42or to go away.' 'Ah,' said the father, 'I have nothing but unhappiness with you. Go out of my sight. I will see you no
43more.' 'Yes, father, right willingly, wait only until it is day. Then will I go forth and learn how to shudder, and then
44I shall, at any rate, understand one art which will support me.' 'Learn what you will,' spoke the father, 'it is all the
45same to me. Here are fifty talers for you. Take these and go into the wide world, and tell no one from whence you come,
46and who is your father, for I have reason to be ashamed of you.' 'Yes, father, it shall be as you will. If you desire
47nothing more than that, I can easily keep it in mind.'
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