1 I will still, however, tell you how to find the golden horse, if you will do as I bid you.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE GOLDEN BIRD 2 His horse would have ran off, if a shepherd who was coming by, driving a cow, had not stopped it.
3 Yes, yes,' answered the mouse, 'by all means go, and if you get anything very good to eat, think of me.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In CAT AND MOUSE IN PARTNERSHIP 4 After he had travelled a little way, he spied a dog lying by the roadside and panting as if he were tired.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE TRAVELLING MUSICIANS 5 Then he laid himself down on his bed, and in a little while began to snore very loud as if he was fast asleep.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES 6 In the middle of the heavens there was a little piece of blue sky, but towards the south all was red, as if a dreadful storm was rising.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE 7 But it was agreed, that, if he could bring thither the beautiful princess, he should live, and have the bird and the horse given him for his own.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE GOLDEN BIRD 8 At last, as they drew near the end of their journey, this treacherous servant threatened to kill her mistress if she ever told anyone what had happened.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE GOOSE-GIRL 9 It would have been all over with her, likewise, if, by good fortune, a tailor who was travelling in search of work, had not sat down to rest by the brook.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE STRAW, THE COAL, AND THE BEAN 10 The coast once clear, our travellers soon sat down and dispatched what the robbers had left, with as much eagerness as if they had not expected to eat again for a month.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE TRAVELLING MUSICIANS 11 Jorinda sat down to gaze upon the sun; Jorindel sat by her side; and both felt sad, they knew not why; but it seemed as if they were to be parted from one another for ever.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In JORINDA AND JORINDEL 12 So the sparrow perched upon the shelf: and having first looked carefully about her to see if anyone was watching her, she pecked and scratched at a steak that lay upon the edge of the shelf, till at last down it fell.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE DOG AND THE SPARROW 13 Hans soon came to himself, and got upon his legs again, sadly vexed, and said to the shepherd, 'This riding is no joke, when a man has the luck to get upon a beast like this that stumbles and flings him off as if it would break his neck.'
14 The next morning the court sat to judge him; and when all was heard, it sentenced him to die, unless he should bring the king the golden horse which could run as swiftly as the wind; and if he did this, he was to have the golden bird given him for his own.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE GOLDEN BIRD 15 They slept in twelve beds all in one room; and when they went to bed, the doors were shut and locked up; but every morning their shoes were found to be quite worn through as if they had been danced in all night; and yet nobody could find out how it happened, or where they had been.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES 16 And when he came into the palace, the flies were sleeping on the walls; the spit was standing still; the butler had the jug of ale at his lips, going to drink a draught; the maid sat with a fowl in her lap ready to be plucked; and the cook in the kitchen was still holding up her hand, as if she was going to beat the boy.
17 Then the king made it known to all the land, that if any person could discover the secret, and find out where it was that the princesses danced in the night, he should have the one he liked best for his wife, and should be king after his death; but whoever tried and did not succeed, after three days and nights, should be put to death.
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