Reading Notes: The Fox and the Horse, Part B

 Story and Picture source: Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm

The Fox and the Horse

  • a farmer had a horse
  • it was a great horse but was too old now
  • the farmer want him gone until the horse could be as strong as a lion
  • the horse wandered off seeking shelter
  • he met a fox
  • the fox asks him whats wrong
  • the horse tells him his very sad story
  • the fox says that he can help him
  • the fox tells the horse to stay still and lay down stiff
  • the fox goes and finds a lion
  • he tells the lion that the horse is dead and can eat him
  • the fox tricks the lion and ties him up instead
  • he ties the lion to the horse and sends the horse to his masters house
  • the farmer then agrees that the horse can stay since he caught a lion
  • the horse lived happily until he died 
Horse pulls Lion


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