Peter Christen Asbjørnsen,
Tales from the Fjeld — Goody Gainst-the-Stream
(1908)
“ Mayn't we just as well reap the field after all?" he asked. "No! no! shear! shear!" bawled out the goody, who jumped about and clipped like a pair of scissors under her husband's nose. In her shrewishness she took such little heed that she tripped over a beam on the bridge, and down she went plump into the stream. "'Tis hard to wean any one from bad ways," said the man, "but it were strange if I were not sometimes in the right too." ”
