“He had lived free and would die free, and anxiously flying hither and thither, he cried, " Where shall I go ? where shall I go ? " He retired into a solitary and unfrequented marsh, and showed himself no more among his fellows. The birds now wished to discuss the matter, and on a fine May morning they all gathered together from the woods and fields : eagles and chaffinches, owls and crows, larks and sparrows, how can I name them all ?”

— Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 171 · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan