Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children . with them and served them. Yet, afterall, their hunger was not appeased. So one of them said to the fox, Here, you littlesneak, who are so clever and sly, go and find ussomething to eat. Then the fox answered, Not far from here liesa town where we have many times fetched awaychickens. I will show you the way. So the fox showed them the way to the village,where they bought some provisions for themselvesand food for the animals, and went on further. The fox, however, knew quite w
Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children . with them and served them. Yet, afterall, their hunger was not appeased. So one of them said to the fox, Here, you littlesneak, who are so clever and sly, go and find ussomething to eat. Then the fox answered, Not far from here liesa town where we have many times fetched awaychickens. I will show you the way. So the fox showed them the way to the village,where they bought some provisions for themselvesand food for the animals, and went on further. The fox, however, knew quite well the best spotsin that part of the country, and where to find thehenhouses; and he could, above all, direct the hun-ters which road to take. After traveling for a time in this way they couldfind no suitable place for them all to remain to-gether, so one said to the other. The only thing forus to do is to separate; and to this the other they divided the animals so that each had onelion, one bear, one wolf, one fox, and one the time came to say farewell they promised 272 The Twin Brothers. to live in brotherly love till death. They stuck theknife that their foster father had given them in atree, and then one turned to the east, and the otherto the west. The younger, whose steps we will follow first,soon arrived at a large town, in which the houseswere all covered with black crape. He went to aninn, and asked the landlord if he could give shelterto his animals. The landlord pointed out a stablefor them, and their master led them in and shut thedoor. But in the wall of the stable was a hole, and thehare slipped through easily and fetched a cabbagefor herself. The fox followed, and came back witha hen; and as soon as he had eaten it he went for thecock also. The wolf, the bear, and the lion, how-ever, were too large to get through the hole. Thenthe landlord had a cow killed and brought in forthem, or they would have starved. The Twin Brothers 273 The hunter
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