Gateway to the Classics: Popular Tales from the Norse by George Webbe Dasent
 
Popular Tales from the Norse by  George Webbe Dasent
Table of Contents
True and Untrue
Why the Sea Is Salt
The Old Dame and Her Hen
East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon
Boots Who Ate a Match with the Troll
Hacon Grizzlebeard
Boots Who Made the Princess Say, "That's a Story"
The Twelve Ducks
The Giant Who Had No Heart in His Body
The Fox as Herdsman
The Mastermaid
The Cat on the Dovrefell
Princess on the Glass Hill
How One Went Out To Woo
The Cock and Hen
The Master-Smith
The Two Step-Sisters
Buttercup
Taming the Shrew
Shortshanks
Gudbrand on the Hill-side
The Blue Belt
Why the Bear Is Stumpy-Tailed
Not a Pin To Choose between Them
One's Own Children Are Always Prettiest
The Three Princesses of Whiteland
The Lassie and Her Godmother
The Three Aunts
The Cock, the Cuckoo, and the Blackcock
Rich Peter the Pedlar
Gertrude's Bird
Boots and the Troll
Goosey Grizzel
The Lad Who Went to the North Wind
The Master Thief
The Best Wish
The Three Billy-Goats Gruff
Well Done and Ill Paid
The Husband Who Was To Mind the House
Dapplegrim
Farmer Weathersky
Lord Peter
The Seven Foals
The Widow's Son
Bushy Bride
Boots and His Brothers
Big Peter and Little Peter
Tatterhood
The Cock and Hen That Went to the Dovrefell
Katie Woodencloak
Thumbikin
Doll i' the Grass
The Lad and the Deil
The Cock and Hen a-Nutting
The Big Bird Dan
Soria Moria Castle
Bruin and Reynard
Tom Totherhouse
Little Annie the Goose-Girl

The Cock, the Cuckoo, and the Blackcock

[This is another of those tales in which the birds' notes must be imitated.]

Once on a time the Cock, the Cuckoo, and the Blackcock bought a cow between them. But when they came to share it, and could not agree which should buy the others out, they settled that he who woke first in the morning should have the cow.

So the Cock woke first.

"Now the cow's mine!

Now the cow's mine!

Hurrah! hurrah!"

he crew, and as he crew, up awoke the Cuckoo.

"Half cow!

Half cow!"

sang the Cuckoo, and woke up the Blackcock.

"A like share, a like share;

Dear friends, that's only fair!

Saw see! See saw!"

That's what the Blackcock said.

And now, can you tell me which of them ought to have the cow?


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