ENG 208 C.A.S.S. (Ritchie)
Godfather Death
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
A poor man had twelve children and had to work day and night in order just to feed
them. Thus when the thirteenth came into the world, not knowing what to do in his
need, he ran out into the highway, intending to ask the first person whom he met to be
the godfather.
The first person who came his way was our dear God, who already knew what was in
his heart, and God said to him, “Poor man, I pity you. I will hold your child at his
baptism, and care for him, and make him happy on earth.”
The man said, “Who are you?”
“I am God.”
“Then I do not wish to have you for a godfather,” said the man. “You give to the rich,
