Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm

“ Suppose some fine day I carry off one of your master’s fat sheep? Nowadays it is hard to get one’s living.’
‘Don’t count on that,’ answered the dog. ‘I must remain true to my master—I shall never permit it?’
The Wolf, thinking that he had not spoken in earnest, came and crept in at night, and tried to carry off a sheep. But the peasant, to whom the faithful Sultan had betrayed the Wolf’s intention, spied him and belaboured him soundly with a threshing-flail. ”

“ You must rush quickly after me, as though you wanted to rescue the child. I will let it fall, and you will take it back to its parents again; they will think that you have saved it, and will be far too thankful to do you any harm. ”