Extra Credit Reading: The Dog and the Corpse

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  • A man went hunting with favorite hunting dog
  • They looked everywhere but found no game to kill
  • Eventually, they stumbled upon a graveyard
  • The man and his dog saw a corpse in the road
  • The dog saved the man by biting the corpse's calf and the man ran off
  • After the dog defeated the corpse, the dog was furious and chased down his master
  • He bit the master and attacked him until villagers fended him off
  • The dog told the old women what had happened 
  • The dog held a grudge against his master and they chained him up for years
  • Every time the master would come around the dog would growl, so they had to kill it

Story source: Russian Fairy Tales The Dog and the Corpse by W. R. S. Ralston (1887).

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