` Are you mad ? ' they all exclaimed . ` Do you think we have money by the bushel ? ' ` Skins ! skins ! Who will buy skins ? ' he cried again , and to all who asked him what they cost , he answered , ' A bushel of money . ' ` He is making game of us , ' they said ; and the shoemakers seized their yard measures and the tanners their leathern aprons and they gave Big Klaus a good beating . ` Skins ! skins ! ' they cried mockingly ; yes , we will tan YOUR skin for you ! Out of the town with him ! ' they shouted ; and Big Klaus had to hurry off as quickly as he could , if he wanted to save his life . ` Aha ! ' said he when he came home , ` Little Klaus shall pay dearly for this . 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 .
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