Grimms' fairy tales

There was once a poor peasant who had no land, but only a small house, and one daughter. Then said the daughter, We ought to ask our lord the King for a bit of newly-cleared land. When the King heard of their poverty, he presented them with a piece of land, which she and her father dug up, and intended to sow with a little corn and grain of that kind. When they had dug nearly the whole of the field, they found in the earth a mortar made of pure gold. Listen, said the father ...