" "I'm sick," said the false princess "I need to eat a morsel of lamb Slaughter me that one out there that won't stop bleating" "Didn't you tell me some time ago," asked the prince, "that the lamb was your brother?
10 Between the cup and the lip a morsel may slip.
" No food was brought, but the Barmecide pretended to help himself from a dish, and carry a morsel to his mouth, saying as he did so, "Eat, my friend, eat, I entreat.
Though I only ate what was absolutely necessary to keep myself alive, the inevitable moment came when, after swallowing my last morsel of food, I began to wonder if I must after all die of hunger.
However, as I was so far from being a tempting morsel, I was allowed to wander about freely, and one day, when all the blacks had gone off upon some expedition leaving only an old man to guard me, I managed to escape from him and plunged into the forest, running faster the more he cried to me to come back, until I had completely distanced him.
The man and his wife, had however, bad hearts, and were greedy and anxious about their riches, and vexed whenever any one put a morsel of their bread in his mouth.
So she scraped at it for four-and-twenty hours, but could not bring off the least morsel of it.
Now the maiden still lay sleeping, and she was quite sewn into her night-dress, and he cut a morsel from this also, and thrust it in with the rest, but he did all without touching her.
If only I have a morsel of bread - and that can hardly fail me - I can eat butter and cheese with it as often as I like, if I am thirsty, I can milk my cow and drink the milk.
I know a sheep-fold from which we might fetch a nice morsel.
Thereupon the little dwarf carried the ravens' dinner in, on seven little plates, and in seven little glasses, and the little sister ate a morsel from each plate, and from each little glass she took a sip, but in the last little glass she dropped the ring which she had brought away with her.
On the way into the forest Hansel crumbled his in his pocket, and often stood still and threw a morsel on the ground.
And the little dog under the table is better off, for she often throws it a choice morsel.
"I don't care for the little green morsel; it would only tickle my throat.
Poor little Tiny stood before the door just like a little beggar-girl, and begged for a small piece of barley-corn, for she had been without a morsel to eat for two days.
