Grimms' Fairy Tales, Part 8: samenvatting

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1. A neglected dog leaves his master, and a sparrow helps him find meat and bread in town.
2. The dog sleeps on the road, where a carter ignores the sparrow’s warning and drives over him.
3. The sparrow drains both wine casks and provokes the carter into killing his three horses while striking at her.
4. At the carter’s home, the sparrow joins thousands of birds eating his grain and threatens his life.
5. The carter and his wife destroy their furnishings while trying to hit the sparrow, then catch her.
6. Ordered to strike the captured bird, the wife kills her husband instead, and the sparrow returns to her nest.

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The carter feels anger rather than remorse despite his losses. His continued attacks turn the sparrow’s threats into further destruction.

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