George Webbe Dasent, Popular Tales from the Norse — Why the Bear is Stumpy-Tailed (1912)
“ So the Bear had a mind to learn to fish too, and bade the Fox tell him how he was to set about it. "Oh! it's an easy craft for you," answered the Fox, "and soon learnt. You've only got to go upon the ice, and cut a hole and stick your tail down into it; and so you must go on holding it there as long as you can. You're not to mind if your tail smarts a little; that's when the fish bite. The longer you hold it there the more fish you'll get ”
