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1A shepherd's dog had a master who took no care of him, but often let him suffer the greatest hunger. At last he could
2bear it no longer; so he took to his heels, and off he ran in a very sad and sorrowful mood. On the road he met a
3sparrow that said to him, 'Why are you so sad, my friend?' 'Because,' said the dog, 'I am very very hungry, and have
4nothing to eat.' 'If that be all,' answered the sparrow, 'come with me into the next town, and I will soon find you
5plenty of food.' So on they went together into the town: and as they passed by a butcher's shop, the sparrow said to the
6dog, 'Stand there a little while till I peck you down a piece of meat.' So the sparrow perched upon the shelf: and
7having first looked carefully about her to see if anyone was watching her, she pecked and scratched at a steak that lay
8upon the edge of the shelf, till at last down it fell. Then the dog snapped it up, and scrambled away with it into a
9corner, where he soon ate it all up. 'Well,' said the sparrow, 'you shall have some more if you will; so come with me to
10the next shop, and I will peck you down another steak.' When the dog had eaten this too, the sparrow said to him, 'Well,
11my good friend, have you had enough now?' 'I have had plenty of meat,' answered he, 'but I should like to have a piece
12of bread to eat after it.' 'Come with me then,' said the sparrow, 'and you shall soon have that too.' So she took him to
13a baker's shop, and pecked at two rolls that lay in the window, till they fell down: and as the dog still wished for
14more, she took him to another shop and pecked down some more for him. When that was eaten, the sparrow asked him whether
15he had had enough now. 'Yes,' said he; 'and now let us take a walk a little way out of the town.' So they both went out
16upon the high road; but as the weather was warm, they had not gone far before the dog said, 'I am very much tired--I
17should like to take a nap.' 'Very well,' answered the sparrow, 'do so, and in the meantime I will perch upon that bush.'
18So the dog stretched himself out on the road, and fell fast asleep. Whilst he slept, there came by a carter with a cart
19drawn by three horses, and loaded with two casks of wine. The sparrow, seeing that the carter did not turn out of the
20way, but would go on in the track in which the dog lay, so as to drive over him, called out, 'Stop! stop! Mr Carter, or
21it shall be the worse for you.' But the carter, grumbling to himself, 'You make it the worse for me, indeed! what can
22you do?' cracked his whip, and drove his cart over the poor dog, so that the wheels crushed him to death. 'There,' cried
23the sparrow, 'thou cruel villain, thou hast killed my friend the dog. Now mind what I say. This deed of thine shall cost
24thee all thou art worth.' 'Do your worst, and welcome,' said the brute, 'what harm can you do me?' and passed on. But
25the sparrow crept under the tilt of the cart, and pecked at the bung of one of the casks till she loosened it; and then
26all the wine ran out, without the carter seeing it. At last he looked round, and saw that the cart was dripping, and the
27cask quite empty. 'What an unlucky wretch I am!' cried he. 'Not wretch enough yet!' said the sparrow, as she alighted
28upon the head of one of the horses, and pecked at him till he reared up and kicked. When the carter saw this, he drew
29out his hatchet and aimed a blow at the sparrow, meaning to kill her; but she flew away, and the blow fell upon the poor
30horse's head with such force, that he fell down dead. 'Unlucky wretch that I am!' cried he. 'Not wretch enough yet!'
31said the sparrow. And as the carter went on with the other two horses, she again crept under the tilt of the cart, and
32pecked out the bung of the second cask, so that all the wine ran out. When the carter saw this, he again cried out,
33'Miserable wretch that I am!' But the sparrow answered, 'Not wretch enough yet!' and perched on the head of the second
34horse, and pecked at him too. The carter ran up and struck at her again with his hatchet; but away she flew, and the
35blow fell upon the second horse and killed him on the spot. 'Unlucky wretch that I am!' said he. 'Not wretch enough
36yet!' said the sparrow; and perching upon the third horse, she began to peck him too. The carter was mad with fury; and
37without looking about him, or caring what he was about, struck again at the sparrow; but killed his third horse as he
38done the other two. 'Alas! miserable wretch that I am!' cried he. 'Not wretch enough yet!' answered the sparrow as she
39flew away; 'now will I plague and punish thee at thy own house.' The carter was forced at last to leave his cart behind
40him, and to go home overflowing with rage and vexation. 'Alas!' said he to his wife, 'what ill luck has befallen me!--my
41wine is all spilt, and my horses all three dead.' 'Alas! husband,' replied she, 'and a wicked bird has come into the
42house, and has brought with her all the birds in the world, I am sure, and they have fallen upon our corn in the loft,
43and are eating it up at such a rate!' Away ran the husband upstairs, and saw thousands of birds sitting upon the floor
44eating up his corn, with the sparrow in the midst of them. 'Unlucky wretch that I am!' cried the carter; for he saw that
45the corn was almost all gone. 'Not wretch enough yet!' said the sparrow; 'thy cruelty shall cost thee thy life yet!' and
46away she flew. The carter seeing that he had thus lost all that he had, went down into his kitchen; and was still not
47sorry for what he had done, but sat himself angrily and sulkily in the chimney corner. But the sparrow sat on the
48outside of the window, and cried 'Carter! thy cruelty shall cost thee thy life!' With that he jumped up in a rage,
49seized his hatchet, and threw it at the sparrow; but it missed her, and only broke the window. The sparrow now hopped
50in, perched upon the window-seat, and cried, 'Carter! it shall cost thee thy life!' Then he became mad and blind with
51rage, and struck the window-seat with such force that he cleft it in two: and as the sparrow flew from place to place,
52the carter and his wife were so furious, that they broke all their furniture, glasses, chairs, benches, the table, and
53at last the walls, without touching the bird at all. In the end, however, they caught her: and the wife said, 'Shall I
54kill her at once?' 'No,' cried he, 'that is letting her off too easily: she shall die a much more cruel death; I will
55eat her.' But the sparrow began to flutter about, and stretch out her neck and cried, 'Carter! it shall cost thee thy
56life yet!' With that he could wait no longer: so he gave his wife the hatchet, and cried, 'Wife, strike at the bird and
57kill her in my hand.' And the wife struck; but she missed her aim, and hit her husband on the head so that he fell down
58dead, and the sparrow flew quietly home to her nest.
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