“The servant ran after his master and told him what had happened, but would not leave his saddle behind him, and ran back to fetch it. When, however, he came to the dead horse, a raven was already sitting on it devouring it. " Who knows whether we shall find anything better to-day ? " said the servant ; so he killed the raven, and took it with him. And now they journeyed onwards into the forest the whole day, but could not get out of it.”

— Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 22 · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan