Hurrah! If they are deaf and blind,

We'll sing, though weather prove unkind."

And now came the present; but the bridal pair had nothing to

eat, for love was to be their food.

"Shall we go to a country house, or travel?" asked the bridegroom.

Then they consulted the swallow who had travelled so far, and

the old hen in the yard, who had brought up five broods of chickens.

And the swallow talked to them of warm countries, where the grapes