ABSTRACT

The little bird flew back quickly to the dog and said, “Go and fill yourself, while I say goodbye!” Told by the fisherman Ignazio Cumella and collected by Giuseppe Patiri at Termini-Imerese.

Once upon a time there was a cock, and he usually scraped about in agarbage heap. He scraped and scraped and found a booklet, which heopened, and there, on the very first page that he read, stood the name King Cock. As soon as he saw it, he began beating his wings in content. “Cockle-doodle-do! Cockle-doodle-do!”