Then he drew her under his cloak, and in a moment they were both sitting on the mountain. The precious stones were glittering around them; their hearts rejoiced at the sight of them, and they soon gathered together some of the finest and largest. Now the Witch had so managed that the Huntsman began to feel his eyes grow very heavy. So he said to the Maiden: 'We will sit down to rest a while, I am so tired I can hardly stand.' So they sat down, and he laid his head on her lap and was soon fast asleep. As soon as he was asleep, the Maiden slipped the cloak from his shoulders and put it on her own, loaded herself with the precious garnets, and wished herself at home. When the Huntsman had had his sleep out, he woke up and saw that his beloved had betrayed him, and left him alone on the wild mountain. 'Oh, what treachery there is in the world!' he exclaimed, as he sat down in grief, and did not know what to do. Now the mountain belonged to some wild and savage Giants who lived on it, and before long he saw three of them striding along. He quickly lay down again and pretended to be fast asleep. The first one, as he came along, stumbled against him, and said: 'What kind of earthworm is this?' The second said: 'Tread on him and kill him.' But the third said: 'It isn't worth the trouble. Let him alone,--he can't live here; and when he climbs higher up the mountain, the clouds will roll down and carry him off.' Then they passed on, and as soon as they were gone, the Huntsman, who had heard all they said, got up and climbed up to the top of the mountain. After he had sat there for a time, a cloud floated over him, and carried him away. At first he was swept through the air, but then he was gently lowered and deposited within a large walled garden, upon a soft bed of lettuces and other herbs. He looked around him and said: 'If only I had something to eat; I am so hungry. And it will be difficult to get away from here. I see neither apples nor pears, nor any other fruit, nothing but salad and herbs.' At last, however, he thought: 'At the worst, I can eat some of this salad; it does not taste very good, but it will, at least, be refreshing.' He picked out a fine head of lettuce, and began eating it. But he had hardly swallowed a little piece, when he began to feel very odd, and quite changed. He felt four legs growing, a big head, and two long ears, and he saw to his horror that he was changed into an ass. As he at the same time felt as hungry as ever, and the juicy salad was now very much to his taste, he went on eating greedily. At last he reached another kind of salad, which he had hardly tasted when he felt a new change taking place, and found himself back in his human shape. After this he lay down and slept off his fatigue. When he woke next morning he broke off a head of the bad salad, and a head of the good, and thought: 'These will help me to regain my own, and also to punish the traitors.'