Then she asked him : ` Well , brother , are you satisfied ? ' ` Yes , ' he replied ; ` and now let us go for a little walk outside the town . ' So the two went for a stroll into the country ; but the day was very hot , and after they had gone a short distance the dog said : ' I am very tired , and would like to go to sleep . ' ` Sleep , then , ' said the sparrow , ` and I will keep watch meantime on the branch of a tree . ' So the dog lay down in the middle of the road , and was soon fast asleep . While he was sleeping a carter passed by , driving a waggon drawn by three horses , and laden with two barrels of wine . The sparrow noticed that the man was not going out of his way to avoid the dog , but was driving right in the middle of the road where the poor animal lay ; so she called out : ` Carter , take care what you are about , or I shall make you suffer for it . ' But the carter merely laughed at her words , and , cracking his whip , he drove his waggon right over the dog , so that the heavy wheels killed him . Then the sparrow called out : ` You have caused my brother 's death , and your cruelty will cost you your waggon and horses . ' ` Waggon and horses , indeed , ' said the carter ; ` I 'd like to know how you could rob me of them ! ' The sparrow said nothing , but crept under the cover of the waggon and pecked so long at the bunghole of one of the barrels that at last she got the cork away , and all the wine ran out without the carter 's noticing it . But at last he turned round and saw that the bottom of the cart was wet , and when he examined it , he found that one of the barrels was quite empty , ` Oh ! what an unlucky fellow I am ! ' he exclaimed . ` You 'll have worse luck still , ' said the sparrow , as she perched on the head of one of the horses and pecked out its eyes . When the carter saw what had happened , he seized an axe and tried to hit the sparrow with it , but the little bird flew up into the air , and the carter only hit the blind horse on the head , so that it fell down dead . ` Oh ! what an unlucky fellow I am ! ' he exclaimed again . -LSB- Illustration : The Dog & the Sparrow How the Carter killed his horse . -RSB-
` You 'll have worse luck yet , ' said the sparrow ; and when the carter drove on with his two horses she crept under the covering again , and XXXXX away at the cork of the second barrel till she got it away , and all the wine poured out on to the road .
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