I will tell you something. I saw two roasted fowls flying; they flew quickly and had their breasts turned to heaven and their backs to hell, and an anvil and a mill-stone swam across the Rhine prettily, slowly, and gently, and a frog sat on the ice at Whitsuntide and ate a ploughshare. Three fellows who wanted to catch a hare, went on crutches and stilts; one of them was deaf, the second blind, the third dumb, and the fourth could not stir a step. Do you want to know how it was done? First, the blind man saw the hare running across the field, the dumb one called to the lame one, and the lame one seized it by the neck.
There were certain men who wished to sail on dry land, and they set their sails in the wind, and sailed away over great fields. Then they sailed over a high mountain, and there they were miserably drowned. A crab was chasing a hare which was running away at full speed, and high up on the roof lay a cow which had climbed up there. In that country the flies are as big as the goats are here. Open the window, that the lies may fly out.
There were certain men who wished to sail on dry land, and they set their sails in the wind, and sailed away over great fields. Then they sailed over a high mountain, and there they were miserably drowned. A crab was chasing a hare which was running away at full speed, and high up on the roof lay a cow which had climbed up there. In that country the flies are as big as the goats are here. Open the window, that the lies may fly out.
Size bir şey anlatacağım: Ben iki tane kızarmış ördeğin uçtuğunu gördüm. Öyle hızlı uçtular ki, karınları cennete, sırtları da cehenneme bakıyordu. Derken, bir demirci örsü ile bir değirmen taşı Ren nehrini ağır ağır yüzerek geçti. Bir kurbağa da paskalyada buz üzerine oturmuş bir saban yiyordu. Derken üç herif çıkageldi. Tavşan yakalamak istediler, ama koltuk değnekleriyle yürüyorlardı. Biri sağır, öbürü kör, üçüncüsü ise dilsizdi; dördüncüsü ayağını bile kıpırdatamıyordu. Sonra ne oldu biliyor musunuz? Tarlada hoplayan tavşanı ilk önce kör gördü; sağır, felçliye seslendi, felçli de hayvanı boynundan yakaladı. Hep birlikte sahile doğru yelken açtılar ve büyük bir arazinin üstünden geçtiler. Derken yüksek bir dağın üzerinden uçtular, ama sonunda suda boğuldular. Bir yengeç tavşanın peşine düştü, ineğin biri yüksek bir çatıya çıkmıştı. O yöredeki sinekler keçi kadar büyüktü. Açın şu pencereyi de tüm bu palavralar uçup gitsin!