“A countryman one day said to his little puppies, ‘Come into the parlor and enjoy yourselves, and pick up the bread-crumbs on the table; your mistress has gone out to pay some visits.'”
Tag: folklore
Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales: The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage
“Once on a time, a mouse and a bird and a sausage lived and kept house together in perfect peace among themselves, and in great prosperity.”
Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales: The Wonderful Musician
“A wonderful musician was walking through a forest, thinking of nothing in particular. When he had nothing more left to think about, he said to himself, ‘I shall grow tired of being in this wood, so I will bring out a good companion.'”
Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales: The Bremen Town Musicians
“There was once an ass whose master had made him carry sacks to the mill for many a long year, but whose strength began at last to fail, so that each day as it came, found him less capable of work.”
Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales: The Owl
“Two or three hundred years ago, when people were far from being so crafty and cunning as they are now-a-day, an extraordinary event took place in a little town.”
Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales: The Vagabonds
“The cock said to the hen, ‘It is nutting time; let us go together to the mountains and have a good feast for once, before the squirrels come and carry all away.’ ‘Yes,’ answered the hen, ‘come along; we will have a jolly time together.'”
