A crab was chasing a hare which was running away at full speed, and high up on the roof lay a cow which had climbed up there.
He sat down in the churchyard, took out a crab, and stuck a wax-candle on his back.
A crab clambered over him, looking like a gigantic spider, while the shrimps wandered about in restless haste, like the butterflies and moths of the sea.
Hitherto he had been a land crab; the land at last cast him adrift.
"Next morning we had to leave early; there was a terrible road ahead of us, with great bumps and holes as far as Slagelse, and not much better from there on, and we wanted to get to the Crab Inn early, so that on the same day we could reach Sor and visit the Mllers' Emil, as we called him then; yes, he was your grandfather, my late husband, the dean.
But I also knew how common it was for these lumbering giants to be gashed by boat propellers or entangled in crab traps.
