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the dog and the sparrow from Grimm's fairy tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
translated by Edward Taylor and Mary Ann Edwards
this LibriVox recording is in the public domain
bred by Bob Neufeld
had a master who took no care of him but often let him suffer the greatest hunger
at last he could bear it no longer so he took to his heels and off he ran in a
very sad and sorrowful mood
on the road he met a sparrow that said to him how do you see my friend
said the dog I am very very hungry when I have nothing to eat
be all and said the sparrow come with me into the next town and I will soon find
you plenty of food so they went together into the town and as they passed by a
butcher shot espero said to the dog stand that little while tonight packed
you down a piece of meat
show the sparrow perched upon the shower and having first look carefully about
her to see if anyone was watching her she packed and scratched out a steak
that lay up on the edge of the show that last download free then the dog snapped
it up
scrambled away with it into a corner wear a suit ate it all up
well said the sparrow you should have some more if you will so come with me to
the next shop and I will pick you down another steak
was a dog had eaten this to the sparrow said to him well my good friend have you
had enough for now
have had plenty of meat and said he but I should like to have a piece of bread a
doctor
come with me and said this peres and you shall have that too so she took him to a
baker's shop and packed at two rows that lay in the window tell they fell down
and as the dog still wished for more she took him to another shop and pack down
some more for him
when that was he the sparrow asked him whether he had had enough now
said he and now that I take a walk a little way I don't the town so they both
went out upon the high road but as the weather was warm they had not gone try
before the dog said I'm very much time and I should like to take a nap
very well and said the sparrow do so and in the meantime I will pick up on that
bush
so the dog stretched himself out on the road and fell fast asleep
why was he slapped that came by a quarter with a cart drawn by three
horses and loaded with two casks of wine espero saying that the car did not turn
out of the way but would go in the track in which the dog lay so as to drive over
him cried out
stop mister carl rochelle be the worst for you but the card Groundlings to
himself to make it was from a band-aid
practice web and drove his card over the poor dog show that the wheels crushed
him to death
can try the sparrow cruel now has two killed my friend the dog now mind what I
say the deed of the shower cost the old our worse does yo I stand welcome said
the brute what can you do me a and passed on but the sparrow crept under
the tilt of the card and packed at the bombing of one of the casks till she
loosened it and then all the wide ran out without the carter seeing it
at last I looked around and saw that the car was dripping and the cask quite
empty
luck erections I am cried he not rich enough yet said the sparrow has she
highlighted upon the head of one of the horses and packed at him till he reared
up and kick
when the carter song this a drew out his hatchet and aimed to blow the sparrow
meaning to kill her but she flew away the blow up on the poor horses had with
such force that he fell down dead and lucky arrest that I cried he not ready
yet said the sparrow
men as the car went on with the other two horses Shiite gunmen craft under the
tilt of the cot and packed out the bombing of the second cask so that all
the wine ran out
when the car he saw this again cried out
measure a boater a church that I am but the Sparrow and said not wretched not
sure yet
and perched on the head to the second horse and pecked at him too
the carter ran up and struck her again with his hatchet but away she flew and
that blows up on the second loss and killed him on the spot
i has measurable rash that I cried he not regedit and should the sparrow as
she flew away
know how well I played and punish these own house
the contras was forced at last to leave his card behind him and to go home
overflowing with rage and vexation said he do his wife who are here all the cash
flow and may my wine is old spilled on my horse is all three dead husband
replied she and I we could just come into dialogues and has brought with her
older birds in the world I am sure that they have fallen upon our code in the
Lost and eating it up at such a rate no way around the husband upstairs and saw
thousands of birds sitting up on the floor eating up his cause with a sparrow
in the midst of them
lucky reg that I tried the carter 40 so that the call was almost gone
that to read shade nothing yet said the sparrow my cruelty share of cost either
side of life yet but the way she 42
the card saying that he had just lost all that he had went down into his
kitchen and we're still not sorry for what he had done but sad himself angrily
and so quickly in the chimney corner
but the sparrow sat on the outside of the window and cried contact so I
cruelty show cost the entire life with that he jumped up in a rage seized his
hatchet man threw it at the spera but it missed her and only broke the window
espero now hopped in perched upon the window seed and cried contact their
child cost of even higher life then he became mad and blind whether age and
struck the window seat with such force that he clattered into a nice espero
flew from place to place the Carter and his wife was sophia is that they broke
all their furniture glasses chairs benches the table and at last the walls
without touching them at all
in the end however they call her and the wife said that I care at once no pride
he had his letter osco easily she showered I am much more cruel death but
I will eat her
espero began to flutter by any stretch out her neck and cried yet shower cost
these the iLife
with that he can wait no longer so he gave his wife that hatchet and cried
wife strike at the bird and killer in my hand
and a wife struck but she missed her Dame and hit her husband on that head so
that he fell down dead
and the sparrow flu quietly home to rest
and the dog and this para