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The Ditmarsch Tale of Wonders
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I will tell you something. I saw two roasted fowls flying; they flew
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quickly and had their breasts turned to heaven and their backs to hell,
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and an anvil and a mill-stone swam across the Rhine prettily, slowly,
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and gently, and a frog sat on the ice at Whitsuntide and ate a
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ploughshare. Three fellows who wanted to catch a hare, went on crutches
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and stilts; one of them was deaf, the second blind, the third dumb, and
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the fourth could not stir a step. Do you want to know how it was done?
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First, the blind man saw the hare running across the field, the dumb
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one called to the lame one, and the lame one seized it by the neck.
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There were certain men who wished to sail on dry land, and they set
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their sails in the wind, and sailed away over great fields. Then they
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sailed over a high mountain, and there they were miserably drowned. A
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crab was chasing a hare which was running away at full speed, and high
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up on the roof lay a cow which had climbed up there. In that country
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the flies are as big as the goats are here. Open the window, that the
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lies may fly out.
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