ABSTRACT
In the city of Copenhagen there was a certain cobbler, Jens by name, who had a little shop in the street of St Nicholas’ church, where he daily toiled at his business. It so happened that one night in his first sleep he dreamt that a man came to him and asked him, how he would reward him, if he should show him a place where he could gain money. For this cobbler had that evening laid himself to sleep with heavy cares on account of his poverty and straitened circumstances. In his sleep he imagined that he explained his powerlessness to pay such a reward. The other said they would make a compromise. In his dream he clad himself and followed the other, until they came to the cathedral; then he knew he was awake. The other declared that there was money enough inside. He declared that he could not get it without being observed. The other said that he should push his back against the door, whereupon it opened, and urged thereto by this man the cobbler carried out one alms-box and opened it without noise or stir. I do not exactly remember the value of the sum, which was all in small coins, or seslings 1 , of which each is worth about the fourth part of a cod-fish 2 ; but I think the sum was reckoned as certainly about 300 dollars 3 . Then he said that he locked up the church again without making a rattle or sound. After this had been done, he said the other man disappeared.
