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The carter seeing that he had thus lost all that he had, went

down into his kitchen; and was still not sorry for what he had

done, but sat himself angrily and sulkily in the chimney corner.

But the sparrow sat on the outside of the window, and cried

'Carter! thy cruelty shall cost thee thy life!' With that he

jumped up in a rage, seized his hatchet, and threw it at the

sparrow; but it missed her, and only broke the window. The

sparrow now hopped in, perched upon the window-seat, and cried,

'Carter! it shall cost thee thy life!' Then he became mad and

blind with rage, and struck the window-seat with such force that

he cleft it in two: and as the sparrow flew from place to place,

the carter and his wife were so furious, that they broke all

their furniture, glasses, chairs, benches, the table, and at last

the walls, without touching the bird at all.