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Updated: May 7, 2025
He spoke to me very mournfully the last time, gave me twice as much bread and cheese as usual, and kissed his hand to me; then he went away, and never came back. I don't know his history. "'Soup on a sausage-peg! said the gaoler, to whom I now went; but I should not have trusted him. He took me in his hand, certainly, but he popped me into a cage, a treadmill.
And that's the best in great things and in small, so also with regard to soup on a sausage-peg not to expect any thanks for it. Far away in the land of India, far away towards the East, at the end of the world, stood the Tree of the Sun, a noble tree, such as we have never seen, and shall probably never see.
Each of them wished to proceed to one of the four quarters of the globe, and then it would become manifest which of them was favoured by fortune. Every one took a sausage-peg, so as to keep in mind the object of the journey. The stiff sausage-peg was to be to them as a pilgrim's staff.
"'Not to keep! they all repeated; and they seized the sausage-peg, which I gave up to them, and danced away to the spot where the fine moss grew; and here they set up the peg in the midst of the green. They wanted to have a maypole of their own, and the one they now had seemed cut out for them; and they decorated it so that it was beautiful to behold.
I forgot my mission in the wide world, forgot my sausage-peg: that I had placed in a crack in the floor it's lying there still. I wished to stay where I was, for if I went away, the poor prisoner would have no one at all, and that's having too little, in this world. I stayed, but he did not stay.
"I did feel something," said Ashpot; "but I thought that it was only a sausage-peg that had fallen on the bed, so I went to sleep again." The giant was more astonished than ever, and went off to consult his sister, who lived in a neighbouring mountain, and was about ten times his size.
I began thinking what kind of stories could be made to refer to a sausage-peg; and many pegs, and sticks, and staves, and splinters came into my mind the ant queen must have had a particularly fine understanding.
And the discourse turned upon these; and at last the expression, 'Soup on sausage-rinds, or, as they have the proverb in the neighbouring country, 'Soup on a sausage-peg, was mentioned. Every one had heard the proverb, but no one had ever tasted the sausage-peg soup, much less prepared it.
The rumour penetrated even to us, of the royal prize offered to those who could cook soup upon a sausage-peg; and it was my old grandmother who thereupon ferreted out a manuscript, which she certainly could not read, but which she had heard read out, and in which it was written: 'Those who are poets can boil soup upon a sausage-peg. She asked me if I were a poet.
"'The whole thing is soup on a sausage-peg, said the gaoler; 'but the soup may cost him his neck. "Now, this gave me an interest in the prisoner," continued the Mouse, "and I watched my opportunity and slipped into his prison for there's a mouse-hole to be found behind every locked door. The prisoner looked pale, and had a great beard, and bright sparkling eyes.
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