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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