Grimms' fairy tales

A disbanded soldier had nothing to live on, and did not know how to get on. So he went out into the forest and when he had walked for a short time, he met a little man who was, however, the Devil. The little man said to him, What ails you, you seem so very sorrowful? Then the soldier said, I am hungry, but have no money. The Devil said, If you will hire yourself to me, and be my serving-man, you shall have enough for all your life? You shall serve me for seven years, and ...