- and at last all he had in the world was gone, save just leather enough to make one pair of shoes. - Then he cut his leather out, all ready to make up the next day, meaning to rise early in the morning to his work. - In the morning after he had said his prayers, he sat himself down to his work. - there was not one false stitch in the whole job. - In the evening he cut out the work, and went to bed early, that he might get up and begin betimes next day. - but he was saved all the trouble, for when he got up in the morning the work was done ready to his hand. - He cut out the work again overnight and found it done in the morning, as before. - and so it went on for some time: what was got ready in the evening was always done by daybreak, and the good man soon became thriving and well off again. - Then they dressed themselves in the twinkling of an eye, and danced and capered and sprang about, as merry as could be