Grimms' Fairy Tales, Part 28 summary

What happens

1. A carpenter makes a wooden calf, and the herdsman loses it; the mayor orders him to compensate the little peasant with a cow.
2. Unable to feed the cow, the peasant slaughters it and carries its hide toward town, rescuing an injured raven along the way.
3. At a mill, he exposes hidden food and a concealed parson through supposed raven prophecies, earning three hundred talers.
4. His neighbors slaughter their cows after he claims his hide earns that sum, then sentence him to death when their hides fetch little.
5. He tricks a shepherd into entering his execution barrel, takes the sheep, and lets the villagers roll the shepherd into the water.
6. He claims the sheep come from underwater; the mayor and villagers jump in and die, making him their sole heir.

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