190 The Crumbs on the Table
A countryman one day said to his little puppies, "Come into the parlour
and enjoy yourselves, and pick up the bread-crumbs on the table; your
mistress has gone out to pay some visits." Then the little dogs said,
"No, no, we will not go. If the mistress gets to know it, she will beat
us." The countryman said, "She will know nothing about it. Do come;
after all, she never gives you anything good." Then the little dogs
again said, "Nay, nay, we must let it alone; we must not go." But the
countryman let them have no peace until at last they went, and got on
the table, and ate up the bread-crumbs with all their might. But at
that very moment the mistress came, and seized the stick in great haste,
and beat them and treated them very hardly. And when they were outside
the house, the little dogs said to the countryman, "Dost, dost, dost,
dost, dost thou see?" Then the countryman laughed and said, "Didn't,
didn't, didn't, you expect it?" So they just had to run away.
191 The Sea-Hare
There was once upon a time a princess, who, high under the battlements
in her castle, had an apartment with twelve windows, which looked out
in every possible direction, and when she climbed up to it and looked
around her, she could inspect her whole kingdom.
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