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(1851) [MARC] Author: H. C. Andersen
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swine live on acorns; the swine are lords in
the forest!"

They were cold nights, they were, gloomy
days; but the raven sat on the bough and
croaked nevertheless: "brah, brah!" The raven
and the crow sat on the topmost bough" they
have a large family, and they all said: "brah,
brah! caw, caw!" and the majority is always
right.

There was a great miry pool under the tall
trees in the hollow, and here lay the whole
herd of swine, great and small – they found the
place so excellent. "Oui! oui!" said they, for
they knew no more French, but that, however,
was something. They were so wise, and so fat,
and altogether lords in the forest.

The old ones lay still, for they thought; the
young ones, on the contrary, were so brisk –
busy, but apparently uneasy. One little pig
had a curly tail – that curl was the mother’s
delight. She thought that they all looked at the
curl, and thought only of the curl; but that

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