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Updated: July 6, 2025
One day, when the youth was sitting comfortably before his hut, playing on the flute, while the ox grazed at some distance, up came an enormous bull, so fat that his hide seemed ready to burst. "Why did you come here, youngster, with your Tellerchen, to drink my water and feed on my grass?" he asked. "I didn't know that this was your property," answered the youth, "Tellerchen brought me here."
She soon discovered that Tellerchen must be at the bottom of the mystery, for she perceived that the boy took much better care of him than of the other cattle. How should she manage to find out what he did and ate in the woods? She secretly sent her daughter after him, and ordered her to watch what the youth did while pasturing the cattle.
"Why, Tellerchen," replied the youth, "there must be witchcraft about you too. Where was such a thing ever heard of, and how long have you been able to talk?" "Mind what I tell you. I see you are an excellent lad, and I am sorry you should weep your youth away. Just try my advice, and you'll see that it will be profitable to you." And it was. The youth seized Tellerchen's right horn.
He had no comfort at home, no companions abroad, and so he grew sad and thoughtful. One day, when he was crying with hunger, and even the herdsmen who had left their oxen were eating, Tellerchen suddenly began to speak and said: "Master, don't grieve any longer, throw the ash-cake away, seize my right horn, and eat and drink what you will find there."
After several days a third bull appeared, a feeble, unsightly, ugly, dirty animal, and said to the boy: "Who gave you leave to come here with your Tellerchen to drink my water and spoil the grass in my meadows?" "What business is it of yours?" replied the youth pertly. "If it isn't my business, whose affair should it be?" replied the bull.
Luckily the youth was awake and heard it all. As soon as morning dawned he went to Tellerchen to curry and clean the animal as he always did, but began to weep, and told the ox the fate in store for him.
"Whichever of you two will dare to fight with me may come to-morrow to the Copper Bridge." "Don't worry," replied the youth carelessly, "we will come." When Tellerchen returned from the pasture in the evening, his master, with great amusement, told him every thing that had happened. "Your mirth is out of place," replied the ox, "for my time has now come.
The wolf ran on, but Jack found himself at home again, holding fast in both hands the wolf's tail, which had been torn off. So fared mother's darling Jack. Whoever knows any thing more may continue his story. Tellerchen. Once upon a time something very extraordinary happened. If it had not happened, it would not be told. There was once a husband and wife.
But seeing that his Tellerchen did not come out again from under the bridge and it was growing dark, he set off with his horn, and a heart bleeding with grief. He spent the night on a hill. The next day hunger vexed him, and thinking he should find something to eat in the horn Tellerchen had left him, he opened it. What, I beg to ask you, do you suppose happened then!
Now he had no other thought in his mind except to go to his parents, believing that his step-mother would no longer look askance at him. So he bade his master good-by and went away. Just think, the ox was bewitched, but the boy did not know it. He named the animal Tellerchen. He reached home.
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