“He said, if I were still strong enough to bring him a lion, he would keep me, but he well knows that I cannot do that." The fox said, "I will help thee, just lay thyself down, stretch thyself out, as if thou wert dead, and do not stir." The horse did as the fox desired, and the fox went to the lion, who had his den not far off, and said, " A dead horse is lying outside there, just come with me, thou canst have a rich meal."”

— Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 132 · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan