The Whole Truth (Traditional German story)
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isten carefully because I’m going to tell you the whole truth about what happened to me one cold day in August. I was having a nap when I was awoken by the singing of two roast chicken flying through the air. I followed them until we came to the ocean, where a cannonball was floating.
Then a hare appeared, which crossed the ocean in one bound and began to run. A blind man saw the hare and told his deaf and dumb friend about it, and the deaf and dumb man shouted it out to a lame man who was walking past. The lame man began to run and caught the hare. The blind man led his two friends to his house, where they planned on eating the hare. They were so hungry that they boarded a ship and sailed full steam across the land, but when they were crossing a mountain, they ran into a storm, the ship sank and they were drowned. The hare seized its opportunity and made its escape, but a snail was faster and was able to catch it again. Even so, the poor snail had to fight some mosquitoes as big as zebras who wanted to steal the hare from it. And now run. Open doors and windows. The wind is coming in and taking all the lies away.