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The effigies of a goat, sheep and cow, as used in some peasant festivities (Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Bucharest)"The Goat and Her Three Kids" or "The Goat with Three Kids" (Romanian: Capra cu trei iezi) is an 1875 short story, fable and fairy tale by Moldovian author Ion Creangă.
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type is a 2000 children's book written by Doreen Cronin. Illustrated by Betsy Lewin, the Simon & Schuster book tells the story of Farmer Brown's cows, who find an old typewriter in the barn and proceed to write letters to Farmer Brown, making various demands and then going on strike when they aren't met.
A Horse and Two Goats and Other Stories (also published as A Horse and Two Goats) is a collection of short stories by R. K. Narayan, published in 1970 by The Bodley Head. [1] The book is illustrated by R. K. Laxman , Narayan's brother, and includes five stories. [ 2 ]
"You have two cows" is a political analogy and form of early 20th century American political satire to describe various economic systems of government. The setup of a typical joke of this kind is the assumption that the listener lives within a given system and has two cows , a very relatable occupation across countries and national boundaries.
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Tale of the Goat is also a short animation, in Yiddish, by Max Cohen, inspired by the story. Its Yiddish title is Di Mayse fun di Tsig , it is a winner of the coveted Judge's choice "Palm d'Schnorrers" at Heeb Magazine 's first film festival, the Heeb Film Fest London 2004 .
The story was published by the Brothers Grimm in the first edition of Kinder- und Hausmärchen in 1812. Their source was the Hassenpflug family from Hanau. [2] A similar tale, "The Wolf and the Kids", has been told in the Middle East and parts of Europe, and probably originated in the first century.
Cold Comfort Farm is a comic novel by English author Stella Gibbons, published in 1932.It parodies the romanticised, sometimes doom-laden accounts of rural life popular at the time, by writers such as Mary Webb. [1]