Peter Christen Asbjørnsen,
Tales from the Fjeld — The Hare and the Heiress
(1908)
“ The Hare and the Heiress ONCE on a time there was a hare, who was frisking up and down under the greenwood tree. "Oh! hurrah! hip, hip, hurrah!" he cried, and leapt and sprang, and all at once he threw a somersault and stood upon his hind-legs. Just then a fox came slouching by. "Good day, good day," said the hare; "I'm so merry to-day, for you must know I was married this morning." "Lucky fellow you," said the fox. "Ah, no! not so lucky after all," said the hare, "for she was very heavy-handed, and it was an old witch I got to wife." ”
