I will kill him ! ' Little Klaus ' grandmother had just died . Though she had been very unkind to him , he was very much distressed , and he took the dead woman and laid her in his warm bed to try if he could not bring her back to life . There she lay the whole night , while he sat in the corner and slept on a chair , which he had often done before . And in the night as he sat there the door opened , and Big Klaus came in with his axe . He knew quite well where Little Klaus 's bed stood , and going up to it he struck the grandmother on the head just where he thought Little Klaus would be . ` There ! ' said he . ` Now you wo n't get the best of me again ! ' And he went home . ` What a very wicked man ! ' thought Little Klaus . ` He was going to kill me ! It was a good thing for my grandmother that she was dead already , or else he would have killed her ! ' Then he dressed his grandmother in her Sunday clothes , borrowed a horse from his neighbour , harnessed the cart to it , sat his grandmother on the back seat so that she could not fall out when he drove , and away they went . When the sun rose they were in front of a large inn . Little Klaus got down , and went in to get something to drink . The host was very rich . He was a very worthy but hot-tempered man . ` Good morning ! '
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