1 "If I had a raven or a fox cub I could play with it," said Mary.
2 On the way he passed by a mill, and there sat a raven with broken wings, and out of pity he took him and wrapped him in the skin.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE LITTLE PEASANT 3 Then the peasant pinched the raven's head, so that he croaked and made a noise like krr, krr.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE LITTLE PEASANT 4 Then the peasant once more pinched the raven's head till he croaked loudly.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE LITTLE PEASANT 5 And the birds of the air came too, and bemoaned Snowdrop; and first of all came an owl, and then a raven, and at last a dove, and sat by her side.
6 Scarcely were the words out of her mouth, when the child in her arms was turned into a raven, and flew away from her through the open window.
7 Long after this, a man was making his way through the wood when he heard a raven calling, and he followed the sound of the voice.
8 As it drew towards the appointed hour, he went outside into the garden and mounted the tan-heap to await the raven.
9 Towards two o'clock he went into the garden and on to the tan-heap to watch for the raven.
10 At two o'clock the raven could be seen approaching, and this time her coachman and everything about her, as well as her horses, were black.
11 All the animals were now present except Moses, the tame raven, who slept on a perch behind the back door.
12 The pigs had an even harder struggle to counteract the lies put about by Moses, the tame raven.
13 In the middle of the summer Moses the raven suddenly reappeared on the farm, after an absence of several years.
14 A time came when there was no one who remembered the old days before the Rebellion, except Clover, Benjamin, Moses the raven, and a number of the pigs.
15 The high cap no longer invested his brows, which were only shaded by short and thick curled hair of a raven blackness, corresponding to his unusually swart complexion.