That the whole should be wrenched away and sold at so much 'the comb'as though it were a hair-comb.

And then, after contending that Brentano's Rheinmärchen, which, though written before 1823, were not published until 1846, must have given Heine the hair-combing motif, Thorn says: "Also kann nur Brentano das Vorbild geliefert haben."

The correct music is provided by a band performing entirely on hair-combs and tea-trays.