jenmb 's review for:

The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

4.0

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I enjoyed reading the various versions of well-known tales (as well as getting to read some lesser-known stories, too).

I got a kick out of the start to "The Little Magic Table, The Golden Donkey, and the Club in the Sack." The basic story: A shoemaker has 3 sons and a goat; one by one he casts the sons out of the house for failing to feed the goat. Here's the thing: The sons did feed the goat, but the goat totally acts like a goat and says it's still hungry —

"Oh, my, I'm stuffed!
Enough's enough.
Meh! Meh!"

[Later that evening...]

"How can I have eaten enough?
I just jumped over mounds real rough.
Didn't find one blade of grass 'cause the ground was tough.
Meh! Meh!"

This is EXACTLY how my goats behave. LOL