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1A shepherd had a faithful dog, called Sultan, who was grown very old, and had lost all his teeth. And one day when the
2shepherd and his wife were standing together before the house the shepherd said, 'I will shoot old Sultan tomorrow
3morning, for he is of no use now.' But his wife said, 'Pray let the poor faithful creature live; he has served us well a
4great many years, and we ought to give him a livelihood for the rest of his days.' 'But what can we do with him?' said
5the shepherd, 'he has not a tooth in his head, and the thieves don't care for him at all; to be sure he has served us,
6but then he did it to earn his livelihood; tomorrow shall be his last day, depend upon it.' Poor Sultan, who was lying
7close by them, heard all that the shepherd and his wife said to one another, and was very much frightened to think
8tomorrow would be his last day; so in the evening he went to his good friend the wolf, who lived in the wood, and told
9him all his sorrows, and how his master meant to kill him in the morning. 'Make yourself easy,' said the wolf, 'I will
10give you some good advice. Your master, you know, goes out every morning very early with his wife into the field; and
11they take their little child with them, and lay it down behind the hedge in the shade while they are at work. Now do you
12lie down close by the child, and pretend to be watching it, and I will come out of the wood and run away with it; you
13must run after me as fast as you can, and I will let it drop; then you may carry it back, and they will think you have
14saved their child, and will be so thankful to you that they will take care of you as long as you live.' The dog liked
15this plan very well; and accordingly so it was managed. The wolf ran with the child a little way; the shepherd and his
16wife screamed out; but Sultan soon overtook him, and carried the poor little thing back to his master and mistress. Then
17the shepherd patted him on the head, and said, 'Old Sultan has saved our child from the wolf, and therefore he shall
18live and be well taken care of, and have plenty to eat. Wife, go home, and give him a good dinner, and let him have my
19old cushion to sleep on as long as he lives.' So from this time forward Sultan had all that he could wish for. Soon
20afterwards the wolf came and wished him joy, and said, 'Now, my good fellow, you must tell no tales, but turn your head
21the other way when I want to taste one of the old shepherd's fine fat sheep.' 'No,' said the Sultan; 'I will be true to
22my master.' However, the wolf thought he was in joke, and came one night to get a dainty morsel. But Sultan had told his
23master what the wolf meant to do; so he laid wait for him behind the barn door, and when the wolf was busy looking out
24for a good fat sheep, he had a stout cudgel laid about his back, that combed his locks for him finely. Then the wolf was
25very angry, and called Sultan 'an old rogue,' and swore he would have his revenge. So the next morning the wolf sent the
26boar to challenge Sultan to come into the wood to fight the matter. Now Sultan had nobody he could ask to be his second
27but the shepherd's old three-legged cat; so he took her with him, and as the poor thing limped along with some trouble,
28she stuck up her tail straight in the air. The wolf and the wild boar were first on the ground; and when they espied
29their enemies coming, and saw the cat's long tail standing straight in the air, they thought she was carrying a sword
30for Sultan to fight with; and every time she limped, they thought she was picking up a stone to throw at them; so they
31said they should not like this way of fighting, and the boar lay down behind a bush, and the wolf jumped up into a tree.
32Sultan and the cat soon came up, and looked about and wondered that no one was there. The boar, however, had not quite
33hidden himself, for his ears stuck out of the bush; and when he shook one of them a little, the cat, seeing something
34move, and thinking it was a mouse, sprang upon it, and bit and scratched it, so that the boar jumped up and grunted, and
35ran away, roaring out, 'Look up in the tree, there sits the one who is to blame.' So they looked up, and espied the wolf
36sitting amongst the branches; and they called him a cowardly rascal, and would not suffer him to come down till he was
37heartily ashamed of himself, and had promised to be good friends again with old Sultan. THE STRAW, THE COAL, AND THE
38BEAN In a village dwelt a poor old woman, who had gathered together a dish of beans and wanted to cook them. So she made
39a fire on her hearth, and that it might burn the quicker, she lighted it with a handful of straw. When she was emptying
40the beans into the pan, one dropped without her observing it, and lay on the ground beside a straw, and soon afterwards
41a burning coal from the fire leapt down to the two. Then the straw began and said: 'Dear friends, from whence do you
42come here?' The coal replied: 'I fortunately sprang out of the fire, and if I had not escaped by sheer force, my death
43would have been certain,--I should have been burnt to ashes.' The bean said: 'I too have escaped with a whole skin, but
44if the old woman had got me into the pan, I should have been made into broth without any mercy, like my comrades.' 'And
45would a better fate have fallen to my lot?' said the straw. 'The old woman has destroyed all my brethren in fire and
46smoke; she seized sixty of them at once, and took their lives. I luckily slipped through her fingers.' 'But what are we
47to do now?' said the coal. 'I think,' answered the bean, 'that as we have so fortunately escaped death, we should keep
48together like good companions, and lest a new mischance should overtake us here, we should go away together, and repair
49to a foreign country.' The proposition pleased the two others, and they set out on their way together. Soon, however,
50they came to a little brook, and as there was no bridge or foot-plank, they did not know how they were to get over it.
51The straw hit on a good idea, and said: 'I will lay myself straight across, and then you can walk over on me as on a
52bridge.' The straw therefore stretched itself from one bank to the other, and the coal, who was of an impetuous
53disposition, tripped quite boldly on to the newly-built bridge. But when she had reached the middle, and heard the water
54rushing beneath her, she was after all, afraid, and stood still, and ventured no farther. The straw, however, began to
55burn, broke in two pieces, and fell into the stream. The coal slipped after her, hissed when she got into the water, and
56breathed her last. The bean, who had prudently stayed behind on the shore, could not but laugh at the event, was unable
57to stop, and laughed so heartily that she burst. It would have been all over with her, likewise, if, by good fortune, a
58tailor who was travelling in search of work, had not sat down to rest by the brook. As he had a compassionate heart he
59pulled out his needle and thread, and sewed her together. The bean thanked him most prettily, but as the tailor used
60black thread, all beans since then have a black seam.
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