He was quite certain that it went there, but nobody seems to know who was in it.

So you are really listening at last, mother! I noticed that you have been absentminded till now.
Farmer Max told us something else about his father that you wouldn't like me to repeat, I know." "You would not say so if it were not wrong; you had better not repeat it, Kurt," said the mother.
"No, indeed, it is not bad, but very strange.

I can tell you though, because I don't believe it myself.

Max told that his father said there was something wrong about the coach and that he went far out of its way.
The coachman looked as if he only had half a head, and his coat-collar was rolled up terribly high in order to hide what was below.

He was wildly beating the horses so that they fairly flew up the castle-hill, while sparks of fire were flying from their hoofs." "How can you tell such rubbish, Kurt?
How should there be something unnatural in such a sight ?" the mother scolded him.