as round as the full moon. The fellow was lying on his back, and the wind
from his behind was turning nine mills on the hill.
"Say, what are you doing there?"
"Living off my wind!"
"That's all you do?"
"Yes, and I live very well by it!"
The lad took this third man-at-arms on board his rolling boat.
Next was a fourth man-at-arms with ears like cabbage leaves. He was lying full-length on his side, with one ear to the earth, listening to dandelions grow on the other side of the world. This Sharp-Ears had no other trade and he lived very well. The lad had him come aboard, then sailed on toward the king's castle.
And next? A fifth man-at-arms, with arms like staves, who was throwing stones and knocking down larks for a hundred leagues around. That was all he did, and it gave him a good living! On board, on board! He too boarded the boat that went both on land and on water.
And last? A sixth man-at-arms, with legs like poles, who'd put on these legs to catch hares and who could out-race any hare! That was all he did, and it gave him a good living.
"Come aboard, come aboard!" cried the lad, "you too!" The man-at-arms with the long legs got in, and they sailed off to see the king.
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