On the Migration of Fables
Count not your chickens before they be hatched, is a well-known proverb in English, and most people, if asked what was its origin, would probably appeal to La Fontaine's delightful fable, La Laitière et le Pot au Lait. 1 We all know Perrette, lightly stepping along from her village to the town, carrying the milk-pail on her head, and in her day-dreams selling her milk for a good sum, then buying a hundred eggs, then selling the chickens, then buying a pig, fattening it, selling it again, and buying a cow with a calf. The calf frolics about, and kicks up his legs-so does Perrette, and, alas! the pail falls down, the milk is spilt, her riches g…
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- ISBN: 978-3-7504-0675-9
- EAN: 9783750406759
- Produktnummer: 32803351
- Verlag: Books on Demand
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 79 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 502 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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