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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1873
Page
14
Readable fragments tell a tale of a rooster and hen plotting to become pope with helpers including a sparrow a crow and raven. They travel by a wooden shoe until a fox lures them to his house where the fox kills the entourage leaving the sparrow to escape through an opened window.
A fractured folktale follows a Spider and a Flea living with a door, broom, cart, ashes, tree, and girl. Their misdeeds trigger a chain of creaks, sweeps, burns, shakes, and finally a flood as the girl breaks her pitcher and the household collapses.
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