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Old Man Made Young Again
Lord's Animals and Devil's
Beam
Old Beggar-Woman
Three Sluggards
Twelve Idle Servants
Shepherd Boy
Star-Money
Stolen Farthings
Brides on ir Trial
Odds and Ends
Sparrow
Tale of Cockaigne
Ditmarsh Tale of Wonders
A Riddling Tale
Snow-White and Rose-Red
Wise Servant
Glass Coffin
Lazy Harry
Griffin
Strong Hans
Peasant in Heaven
Lean Lisa
Hut in Forest
Sharing Joy and Sorrow
Willow-Wren
Sole
Bittern and Hoopoe
Owl
Moon
Duration of Life
Death's Messengers
Master Pfriem
Goose-Girl at Well
Eve's Various Children
Nixie of Mill-Pond
Little Folks' Presents
Giant and Tailor
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I will tell you something. I saw two roasted fowls flying; they
flew quickly and had their breasts turned to heaven and their
backs to hell, and an anvil and a mill-stone swam across the
Rhine prettily, slowly, and gently, and a frog sat on the ice at
Whitsuntide and ate a ploughshare. Three fellows who wanted
to catch a hare, went on crutches and stilts; one of them was deaf,
the second blind, the third dumb, and the fourth could not stir a step.
Do you want to know how it was done? First, the blind man saw
the hare running across the field, the dumb one called to the lame
one, and the lame one seized it by the neck.
There were certain men who wished to sail on dry land, and they set their
sails in the wind, and sailed away over great fields. Then they sailed over
a high mountain, and there they were miserably drowned. A crab was
chasing a hare which was running away at full speed, and high up on the
roof lay a cow which had climbed up there. In that country the flies are
as big as the goats are here. Open the window, that the lies may fly out.
Margaret Hunt (London, 1884) |
