The Juniper Tree and Other Tales by The Brothers Grimm

Author:The Brothers Grimm [Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781906548964
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Published: 2012-08-29T04:00:00+00:00

But where did the goat go—the goat whose fault it was that the tailor turned his three sons out of the house? I’ll tell you. She was ashamed of her shaven head, so she found a fox’s earth and crawled into it. When the fox came home he saw a pair of large eyes glowing in the dark, and he was so frightened that he ran away again. Then the bear met him, and seeing how scared the fox looked he said, “What’s the matter, brother Reynard, why do you look like that?”

“Oh,” said Reynard the fox, “there’s a terrible creature in my earth, staring at me with its fiery eyes.”

“We’ll soon drive it away,” said the bear, and he went to the earth and looked in, but when he saw the fiery eyes himself he was frightened too. He wanted nothing to do with the fierce creature, and took to his heels.

The bee met the bear, and when she saw how upset he was she said, “Bear, you look terrible, and you’re usually so cheerful. What’s happened?”

“It’s all very well for you to talk,” said the bear, “but there’s a terrible creature with great goggling eyes in brother Reynard’s earth, and we can’t drive it out.”

“I feel sorry for you, Bear. I’m only a poor, weak little insect, and you and the fox wouldn’t usually spare me a glance, but I believe I can help you.”

Then she flew into the fox’s earth, settled on the goat’s smooth, shaven head, and stung the goat so badly that the animal jumped up, bleating and bleating, ran out into the wide world like a creature run mad, and to this day nobody knows where she went.

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