’It is quite mended,’ answered little Hans, coming down the ladder.
’Ah’! said the Miller, ‘there is no work so delightful as the work one
does for others.’
’It is certainly a great privilege to hear you talk,’ answered little
Hans, sitting down, and wiping his forehead, ‘a very great privilege.
But I am afraid I shall never have such beautiful ideas as you have.’
’Oh! they will come to you,’ said the Miller, ‘but you must take more
pains. At present you have only the practice of friendship; some day
you will have the theory also.’
