The Brothers Grimm's "The Knapsack, the Hat, and the Horn" Summary and Discussion
Three brothers, tired of poverty, go out into the world. In the forest, they come to a hill of silver and the first brother decides to load his pockets and return home. The second does so with a hill of gold, but the third goes further into a much-larger forest, one of unknown breadth. There, starving, he climbs a tree to look around, wishes for food, and finds a knapsack that always provides a feast.
Going on, he finds a succession of coal-burners who live on potatoes. He trades them the knapsack for each of the unused gifts they have, using one of those gifts– a squad of soldiers at his…
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