The second half of the storybook was a little less violent it in my opinion. It also housed less common stories than the first half. There was, however, one story that has many versions. The Hedgehog and the Hare was about a race between the two. The hedgehog tricks the rabbit in a race, and the rabbit eventually runs himself to death. In most iterations of the story it is a turtle that races the hare. Another story that caught my eye was the one about the animals' years. When multiple animals go before the Lord he dishes out a fair amount of life to each one until the human comes up. Not satisfied with the measly thirty years that he is offered the human asks for more and more. God finally relents and gives him the years he subtracted from all the other animals. The story ends by explaining how the years are not always a good thing for the human.
From Dan Ashliman's Grimm Brothers' Children's and Household Stories.
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