“It happened that the cat met the fox in a forest, and as she thought to herself, ‘He is clever and full of experience, and much esteemed in the world,’ she spoke to him in a friendly way. ‘Good day, dear Mr. Fox, how are you? How is all with you? How are you going through this dear season?'”

“A peasant had a faithful horse which had grown old and could do no more work, so his master would no longer give him anything to eat and said, ‘I can certainly make no more use of you, but still I mean well by you; if you prove yourself still strong enough to bring me a lion here, I will maintain you, but now take yourself away out of my stable,’ and with that he chased him into the open country.”

“The fox once came to a meadow in which was a flock of fine fat geese, on which he smiled and said, ‘I come at the nick of time, you are sitting together quite beautifully, so that I can eat you up one after the other.'”