Stories to read or tell from fairy tales and folklore (1911)
Foucher, Laure Claire, Budell, Ada · New York : Moffat, Yard and Company · leaf 173
to the cooking. When people are too well off they alwaysbegin to long for something new. And so itcame to pass, that the Bird while out one day,met a fellow-bird, to whom he told of the ex-cellence of his household arrangements. Butthe other Bird sneered at him for being a poorsimpleton, who did… … The bird tells the others it is time to make a change. MOUSE, BIRD AND SAUSAGE 161 time to set the table. The Sausage had onlyto watch the pot to see that the food was prop-erly cooked, and when it was near dinner-time, he just threw himself into the broth, orrolled in and out among the vegetables…
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