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The hedgehog was standing before his door with his arms crossed,
humming a little song to himself, neither better nor worse than
hedgehogs usually sing on a nice Sunday morning. Singing there
to himself, half silently, it suddenly occurred to him that while his
wife was washing and drying the children, he could take a little
walk into the field and see how his turnips were doing. The turnips
were close by his house, and he and his family were accustomed to
eating them, so he considered them his own.
Gedacht, getan. Er schloss die Haustür hinter sich und schlug den Weg
zum Feld ein. Er war noch nicht sehr weit und wollte gerade um den
Schlehenbusch herum, der vor dem Feld stand, als er den Hasen erblickte,
der in ähnlichen Geschäften ausgegangen war, nämlich um seinen Kohl
zu besehen. Als der Igel den Hasen sah, wünschte er ihm freundlich einen
guten Morgen. Der Hase aber, der auf seine Weise ein vornehmer Herr war
und grausam hochfahrend noch dazu, antwortete gar nicht auf des Igels
Gruß, sondern sagte mit höhnischer Miene: „Wie kommt es, dass du hier
schon so am frühen Morgen im Feld herumläufst?“
No sooner said than done. The hedgehog closed the house door
behind him and started down the path to the field. He hadn’t gone
very far away from his house at all, only as far as the blackthorn
bush which stands at the front of the field, near the turnip patch,
when he met up with the hare, who had gone out for a similar
purpose, namely to examine his cabbage. When the hedgehog
saw the hare, he wished him a friendly good morning. The hare,
however, who was in his own way a distinguished gentleman, and
terribly arrogant about it, did not answer the hedgehog’s greeting,
but instead said to the hedgehog, in a terribly sarcastic manner,
‘How is it that you are running around in the field so early in the
morning?’
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„Ich gehe spazieren“, sagte der Igel.
„Spazieren?“ lachte der Hase.
„Du könntest deine Beine schon zu besseren Dingen gebrauchen.“
Diese Antwort verdroß den Igel sehr. Alles kann er vertragen, aber auf
seine Beine lässt er nichts kommen, gerade weil sie von Natur aus krumm
sind.