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The Dog and the Sparrow

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Dog and sparrow become friends. A carter runs over Dog. The sparrow avenges him. The carter dies impoverished.

Der Froschkönig oder der eiserne Heinrich
Katze und Maus in Gesellschaft
Marienkind
Von einem, der auszog, das Fürchten zu lernen
Der Wolf und die sieben jungen Geißlein
Der treue Johannes
Der gute Handel
Der wunderliche Spielmann
Die zwölf Brüder
Das Lumpengesindel
Brüderchen und Schwesterchen
Rapunzel
Die drei Männlein im Walde
Die drei Spinnerinnen
Hänsel und Gretel
Die drei Schlangenblätter
Die weiße Schlange
Strohhalm, Kohle und Bohne
Von dem Fischer und seiner Frau
Das tapfere Schneiderlein
Aschenputtel
Das Rätsel
Von dem Mäuschen, Vögelchen und der Bratwurst
Frau Holle
Die sieben Raben
Rotkäppchen
Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten
Der singende Knochen
Der Teufel mit den drei goldenen Haaren
Läuschen und Flöhchen
Das Mädchen ohne Hände
Der gescheite Hans
Die drei Sprachen
Die kluge Else
Der Schneider im Himmel
Tischchen deck dich, Goldesel und Knüppel aus dem Sack
Daumesdick
Die Hochzeit der Frau Füchsin
Die Wichtelmänner
Der Räuberbräutigam
Herr Korbes
Der Herr Gevatter
Frau Trude
Der Gevatter Tod
Daumerlings Wanderschaft
Fitchers Vogel
Von dem Machandelboom
Der alte Sultan
Die sechs Schwäne
Dornröschen
Fundevogel
König Drosselbart
Schneewittchen
Der Ranzen, das Hütlein und das Hörnlein
Rumpelstilzchen
Der liebste Roland
Der goldene Vogel
Der Hund und der Sperling
Der Frieder und das Katherlieschen
Die zwei Brüder
Das Bürle
Die Bienenkönigin
Die drei Federn
Die goldene Gans
Allerleirauh
Häsichenbraut
Die zwölf Jäger
Von dem Sommer- und Wintergarten
Jorinde und Joringel
Die drei Glückskinder
Sechse kommen durch die ganze Welt
Der Wolf und der Mensch
Der Wolf und der Fuchs
Der Fuchs und die Frau Gevatterin
Der Fuchs und die Katze
Die Nelke
Das kluge Gretel
Der alte Großvater und der Enkel
Die Wassernixe
Von dem Tode des Hühnchens
Bruder Lustig
Der Spielhansl
Hans im Glück
Hans heiratet
Die Goldkinder
Der Fuchs und die Gänse
Der Arme und der Reiche
Das singende, springende Löweneckerchen
Die Gänsemagd
Der junge Riese
Das Erdmännchen
Der König vom goldenen Berg
Die Rabe
Die kluge Bauerntochter
Der alte Hildebrand
Die drei Vögelchen
Das Wasser des Lebens
Doktor Allwissend
Der Geist im Glas
Des Teufels rußiger Bruder
Der Bärenhäuter
Der Zaunkönig und der Bär
Der süße Brei
Die klugen Leute
Märchen von der Unke
Der arme Müllerbursch und das Kätzchen
Die beiden Wanderer
Hans mein Igel
Das Totenhemdchen
Der Jude im Dorn
Der gelernte Jäger
Der Dreschflegel vom Himmel
Die beiden Königskinder
Vom klugen Schneiderlein
Die klare Sonne bringts an den Tag
Das blaue Licht
Das eigensinnige Kind
Die drei Feldscherer
Die sieben Schwaben
Die drei Handwerksburschen
Der Königssohn, der sich vor nichts fürchtet
Der Krautesel
Die Alte im Wald
Die drei Brüder
Der Teufel und seine Großmutter
Ferdinand getreu und Ferdinand ungetreu
Der Eisenofen
Die faule Spinnerin
Die vier kunstreichen Brüder
Einäuglein, Zweiäuglein und Dreiäuglein
Die schöne Katrinelje und Pif Paf Poltrie
Der Fuchs und das Pferd
Die zertanzten Schuhe
Die sechs Diener
Die weiße und die schwarze Braut
Der Eisenhans
Die drei schwarzen Prinzessinnen
Knoist und seine drei Söhne
Das Mädchen von Brakel
Das Hausgesinde
Das Lämmchen und Fischchen
Simeliberg
Auf Reisen gehen
Das Eselein
Der undankbare Sohn
Die Rübe
Das junggeglühte Männlein
Des Herrn und des Teufels Getier
Der Hahnenbalken
Die alte Bettelfrau
Die drei Faulen
Das Hirtenbüblein
Die Sterntaler
Der gestohlene Heller
Die Brautschau
Die Schlickerlinge
Der Sperling und seine vier Kinder
Das Märchen vom Schlaraffenland
Das Dietmarsische Lügenmärchen
Rätselmärchen
Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot
Der kluge Knecht
Der gläserne Sarg
Der faule Heinz
Der Vogel Greif
Der starke Hans
Das Bürle im Himmel
Die hagere Liese
Das Waldhaus
Lieb und Leid teilen
Der Zaunkönig
Die Scholle
Rohrdommel und Wiedehopf
Die Eule
Der Mond
Die Lebenszeit
Die Boten des Todes
Meister Pfriem
Die Gänsehirtin am Brunnen
Die ungleichen Kinder Evas
Die Nixe im Teich
Die Geschenke des kleinen Volkes
Der Riese und der Schneider
Der Nagel
Der arme Junge im Grab
Die wahre Braut
Der Hase und der Igel
Spindel, Weberschiffchen und Nadel
Der Bauer und der Teufel
Die Brosamen auf dem Tisch
Das Meerhäschen
Der Meisterdieb
Der Trommler
Die Kornähre
Der Grabhügel
Oll Rinkrank
Die Kristallkugel
Jungfrau Maleen
Die Stiefel von Büffelleder
Der goldene Schlüssel

A shepherd dog did not have a good master, but one who made him suffer from hunger. As he could no longer bear to stay with him, he went away quite sad. On the street a sparrow met him, who said 'Brother dog, why are you so sad? The dog answered, "I am hungry and have nothing to eat. Then the sparrow said, "Dear brother, come with me to the city, and I will fill you up. So they went into town together, and when they came to a butcher's store, the sparrow said to the dog, "Stay there, I want to pick a piece of meat off you," sat down on the store, looked around to make sure no one noticed him, and picked, pulled and tugged at a piece that was lying on the edge until it slipped off. Then the dog grabbed it, ran into a corner and ate it up. The sparrow said, "Now come with me to another store, where I will get you another piece, so that you will be full. When the dog had also eaten the second piece, the sparrow asked, "Brother dog, are you full now?" "Yes, I am full of meat," he answered, "but I have not yet had any bread. Said the sparrow, 'You shall have that too, just come along.' So he led him to a baker's store and picked at a few rolls until they rolled down, and when the dog wanted more, he led him to another and fetched him more bread. When that was eaten, the sparrow said, 'Brother Dog, are you full now?' 'Yes,' he answered, 'now let's go outside the city for a bit.

Now they both went out onto the country road. It was warm weather, and when they had gone a little way, the dog said, "I am tired and would like to sleep. Yes, go to sleep,' replied the sparrow, 'I will sit down on a branch in the meantime. So the dog lay down on the road and fell fast asleep. While he was asleep, a carter drove up, with a wagon and three horses, carrying two barrels of wine. The sparrow, however, saw that he did not want to turn off, but remained in the track in which the dog was lying, so he shouted 'Carter, thus not, or I will make you poor'. The carter, however, muttered to himself, "You will not make me poor," cracked his whip and drove the wagon over the dog, so that the wheels drove it to death. Then the sparrow shouted: "You have driven my brother dog to death, this shall cost you cart and horse. Yes, cart and horse,' said the carter, 'what harm could you do me! Then the sparrow crawled under the wagon cloth and pecked at one of the spunt holes until he broke the spunt loose: then all the wine ran out without the carter noticing. And when he looked behind him, he saw that the wagon was dripping, examined the barrels and found that one was empty. The sparrow said, "Not poor enough yet," and flew to the head of one of the horses and plucked out its eyes. When the carter saw this, he pulled out his hoe and wanted to hit the sparrow, but the sparrow flew up into the air, and the carter hit his horse on the head, so that it fell down dead. Not poor enough yet," said the sparrow, and as the wagoner drove on with the two horses, the sparrow crawled under the cloth again and pecked the sparrow loose on the second barrel, so that all the wine came tumbling out. When the wagoner noticed this, he called out again, "Oh, poor me!" but the sparrow answered, "Not poor enough yet," and sat on the second horse's head and pecked out its eyes. The carter ran over and took his hoe, but the sparrow flew up into the air, and the blow struck the horse so that it fell down. The sparrow said, "Not poor enough yet," and sat on the head of the third horse and pecked at its eyes. The carter, in his anger, without looking back, struck at the sparrow, but did not hit him, but also struck his third horse dead. Oh, poor me!' he cried. 'Not poor enough yet,' replied the sparrow, 'now I will make you poor at home,' and flew away.

The carter had to abandon the wagon and went home full of anger and annoyance. Oh,' he said to his wife, 'what misfortune I have had! the wine has leaked out, and the horses are all three dead.' 'Oh, man,' she answered, 'what a wicked bird has come into the house! he has brought together all the birds in the world, and they have fallen upon our wheat above and are eating it up.' Then he went up, and a thousand and a thousand birds were sitting on the ground, and had eaten up the wheat, and the sparrow was sitting in the middle of it. Then the carter cried out, 'Alas, poor me!' 'Not poor enough yet,' answered the sparrow, 'Carter, it will cost you your life yet,' and flew out.
Then the carter had lost all his possessions, went down to the parlor, sat down behind the stove, and did so in an angry and poisonous manner. The sparrow sat outside the window and called out, "Carter, it will cost you your life. The carter grabbed the hoe and threw it at the sparrow, but he only broke the window panes and did not hit the bird. The sparrow hopped in, sat down on the stove and shouted, "Carter, it will cost you your life. The latter, completely mad and blind with rage, smashes the stove in two, and so on, as the sparrow flies from one place to another, all his house utensils, mirror, benches, table, and finally the walls of his house, and cannot hit him. Finally, however, he caught him with his hand. Then his wife said, 'Shall I beat him to death?' 'No,' he cried, 'that would be too easy, he shall die much more murderously, I will devour him,' and takes him and devours him all at once. The sparrow, however, begins to flutter in his body, flutters up again, into the man's mouth: there he sticks out his head and cries 'Carter, it will cost you your life after all'. The carter hands the hoe to his wife and says 'Woman, strike the bird dead in my mouth.' The woman strikes, but misses, and hits the carter straight on the head, so that he falls down dead. But the sparrow flies up and away.

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