Note 9 — Section 27. WITHOUT[1] PAINS NO GAINS.
Reading edition
‘and — so’, say ‘and when (S. 18, N. 6) one asked him how he did (machen) it’. The verb machen should be used in the Pres. Subj., since the clause contains an indirect question (App. §§ 28 and 30). Playfully, scherzend.