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be cheerful when his neck is at risk? I am getting
on in years, and my teeth are getting dull, so I
would rather sit behind the stove and purr than to
chase around after mice. Therefore my mistress
wanted to drown me, but I took off. Now good
advice is scarce. Where should I go?" - "Come
with us to Bremen. After all, you understand
night music. You can become a town musician
there." The cat agreed and went along. Then the
three refugees came to a farmyard, and the
rooster of the house was sitting on the gate crying
with all his might. "Your cries pierce one's
marrow and bone," said the donkey. "What are
you up to?" - "I just prophesied good weather,"
said the rooster, "because it is Our Dear Lady's
Day, when she washes the Christ Child's shirts
and wants to dry them; but because Sunday
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