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Then the fox met him and said,
"why do you hang your head so, and go about all alone?"
"Alas", replied the horse,
"my master has forgotten what services I have performed for him for so many years, and because I can no longer work well, he will give me no more food, and has driven me out."
The horse was sad, and went to the forest to seek a little protection there
from the weather.
"Without giving you a chance?" asked the fox.
"The chance was a bad one," the horse replied. "He said, if I were still strong enough to bring him a lion, he would keep me, but he well knows that I cannot do that."
By: The Grimm Brothers
The fox said,
"I will help you, just lay yourself down, stretch yourself out as if you were
dead, and do not stir."
The horse did as the fox desired,
and the fox went to the lion, who had his den not far off, and said,
"a dead horse is lying outside there, just come with me, you can have a rich meal."
A peasant had a faithful horse which had grown old and could do no more work, so his master would no longer give him anything to eat and said,
"I can certainly make no more use of you, but if you prove yourself still strong enough to bring me a lion here, I will maintain you, but now take yourself out of my stable."
And with that he chased him into the open country.
This advice pleased the lion, he lay down, and in order that the fox might tie the horse to him, he kept quite quiet. But the fox tied the lion's legs together with the horse's tail, and twisted and fastened all so well that no strength could break it. When he had finished his work, he tapped the horse on the shoulder and said,
"pull, horse, pull."
The lion went with him, and when they were both standing by the horse the fox said,
"after all, it is not very convenient for you here - I tell you what - I will fasten it to you by the tail, and then you can drag it into your cave, and devour it in peace."
Then up sprang the horse at once, and
drew the lion away with him. The lion began to roar so that all the birds in the forest flew out in terror, but the horse kept going until he came to his master's door. When the master saw the lion, he was of a better mind, and said to the horse,
"you shall stay with me and fare well," and he gave him plenty to eat until he died.