“When he had drawn out his knife and was whetting it on the door-step to kill the lamb, he noticed a little fish swimming backwards and forwards m the water, in front of the kitchen-sink and looking up at him. This, however, was the brother, for when the fish saw the cook take the lamb away, it followed them and swam along the pond to the house; then the lamb cried down to it, "Ah, brother, in the pond so deep, How sad is my poor heart!”

— Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 141 · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan