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1 › 1 › 4		The Shirt and the Dog ONCE on a time a man had a silver grinding barrow. He used to put his wife and child on top of it and go so quickly along the road that he would beat all the coaches.       Then he thought this grinding barrow was too heavy and clumsy to take about, and cut it up and made tent rods of it. Then his shirt got away, and he didn't know where it was gone.       One day he was going by the tent and saying to himself, "Where did that shirt go?"       There was a tree close by, and the shirt shouted out and said, "I'm here, getting you a bit of stick to make a fire."       The shirt came down with a lot of sticks, and he had been up in the tree for a whole week, getting firewood.       The man also had a dog. One day they went out; the dog on one side the hedge and himself on the other. Then he saw two hares. The dog ran after the. Midway across a field he cut himself right through on a scythe. Then one half ran after one hare, and the other after the other. When the two halves of the dog catched the two hares, the dog smacked together again and he said, "Well, I've got them," and then the dog died.       The man had a hole in the knee of his breeches. He cut a piece of the dog's skin after it was dead and sewed it in the knee of his breeches. Exactly one year later his breeches knee burst open and barked at him. Literature            USER'S GUIDE to abbreviations, the site's large bibliography, letter codes, dictionaries, site design and navigation, tips for searching the site and page referrals. [LINK]    DISCLAIMER: To help us out: [LINK]    © 2007, Tormod Kinnes. All rights reserved. [E-MAIL]