Grimm's Household Tales

I will tell you something. I saw two roasted fowls flying. They flew quickly and had their breasts turned toward heaven and their backs toward hell, and an anvil and a millstone swam across the Rhine prettily, slowly, and gently, and a frog sat on the ice at Pentecost and ate a plowshare. Three fellows who wanted to catch a hare went on crutches and stilts; one of them was deaf, the second blind, the third mute, and the fourth could not take a step. Do you want to know how it was done? First, the blind man saw the hare running across the field, the mute one called to the one who could not walk, and that one seized it by the neck.

There were some men who wished to sail on dry land, and they set their sails to the wind and sailed away over great fields. Then they sailed over a high mountain, and there they were miserably drowned. A crab was chasing a hare that was running away at full speed, and a cow that had climbed up there lay high up on the roof. In that country the flies are as big as the goats are here. Open the window so that the lies may fly out.