Oldal 22 [22]
2 GRIMM S FAIRY TALES.
6 Now,” said he, “set to work and cook some bran and
cabbage; I am going to bid the wedding guests.” And soon
they were all collected. Would you like to know who they
were? Well, I can only tell you what was told to me; all
the hares came, and the crow who was to be the parson to
marry them, and the fox for the clerk, and the altar was
under the rainbow. But the maiden was sad, because she
was so lonely. |
“Get up! get up!” said the rabbit, “the wedding folk
are all merry.”
But the bride wept and said nothing, and the rabbit went
away, but very soon came back again,
6 Get up! get up!” said he, “the wedding folk are wait¬
ing.” But the bride said nothing, and the rabbit went away.
Then she made a figure of straw, and dressed it in her own
clothes, and gave it a red mouth, and set it to watch the
kettle of bran, and then she went home to her mother.
Back again came the rabbit, saying, “Get up! get up!” and
he went up and hit the straw figure on the head, so that it
tumbled down.
And the rabbit thought that he had killed his bride, and he
went away and was very sad.