Grimm, Jacob (1785-1863) and Wilhelm (1786-1859) - German philologists whose
collection "Kinder- und Hausmarchen," known in English as "Grimm's Fairy
Tales," is a timeless literary masterpiece. The brothers transcribed these
tales directly from folk and fairy stories told to them by common villagers.
The Bittern and the Hoopoe (1812) - A cow-herd tells why he feeds his flocks
where the grass is neither too rich nor too poor. The bittern and the hoopoe
were once shepherds, he explains, but neither knew the virtue of moderation.
