ne day that Little Two-eyes had to go out into the fields
to take care of the goat, but she was still quite hungry because her
sisters had given her so little to eat. So she sat down in the meadow
and began to cry, and she cried so much that two little brooks ran out
of her eyes. But when she looked up once in her grief there stood a
woman beside her who asked, 'Little Two-eyes, what are you crying for?'
Little Two-eyes answered, 'Have I not reason to cry? Because I have two
eyes like other people, my sisters and my mother cannot bear me; they
push me out of one corner into another, and give me nothing to eat
except what they leave. To-day they have given me so little that I am
still quite hungry.' Then the wise woman said, 'Little Two-eyes, dry
your eyes, and I will tell you something so that you need never be
hungry again. Only say to your goat,

"Little goat, bleat, Little table, appear,"

and a beautifully spread table will stand before you, with the most
delicious food on it, so that you can eat as much as you want. And when
you have had enough and don't want the little table any more, you have
only to say,

"Little goat, bleat, Little table, away,"

and then it will vanish.' Then the wise woman went away.

But Little Two-eyes thought, 'I must try at once if what she has told me
is true, for I am more hungry than ever'; and she said,

'Little goat, bleat, Little table appear,'

and scarcely had she uttered the words, when there stood a little table
before her covered with a white cloth, on which were arranged a plate,
with a knife and fork and a silver spoon, and the most beautiful dishes,
which were smoking hot, as if they had just come out of the kitchen.
Then Little Two-eyes said the shortest grace she knew, and set to work
and made a good dinner. And when she had had enough, she said, as the
wise woman had told her,

'Little goat, bleat, Little table, away,'

and immediately the table and all that was on it disappeared again.
'That is a splendid way of housekeeping,' thought Little Two-eyes, and
she was quite happy and contented.

In the evening, when she went home with her goat, she found a little
earthenware dish with the food that her sisters had thrown to her, but
she did not touch it. The next day she went out again with her goat, and
left the few scraps which were given her. The first and second times
her sisters did not notice this, but when it happened continually, they
remarked it and said,