Grimm's Household Tales

There was once an old woman—but surely you have seen an old woman go out begging before now, have you not? This woman begged too, and when she got anything she said, “May God reward you.” The beggar woman came to a door, and there by the fire a friendly rascal of a boy was standing, warming himself. The boy said kindly to the poor old woman as she stood shivering there by the door, “Come, old mother, and warm yourself.” She came in but stood too near the fire, so that her old rags began to burn, and she was not aware of it. The boy stood and saw that, but he ought to have put out the flames. Is it not true that he ought to have put them out? And if he had no water, then he should have wept all the water in his body out of his eyes, and that would have supplied two pretty streams with which to extinguish them.