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The Bird 'Grip' - Summary
... The king's eldest son offered to fetch the bird, from where it was kept in a cage by another king but on his way to fetch the bird, he stayed at a merry inn, where he enjoyed himself so much that ... at the inn, but the youngest said that he had to fetch the bird 'Grip', and continued on instead of remaining at the inn ...

Famous quotes containing the word fetch:

    I’m going out to fetch the little calf
    That’s standing by the mother. It’s so young,
    It totters when she licks it with her tongue.
    I sha’n’t be gone long.—You come too.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    We fetch fire and water, run about all day among the shops and markets, and get our clothes and shoes made and mended, and are the victims of these details, and once in a fortnight we arrive perhaps at a rational moment.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)