"If you say those words the fish will come and hang on to your tail. The longer you sit there, the more fish you'll catch."
And sure enough the wolf went down to the river, sat on the ice and stuck his tail in the hole. He sat there singing quietly:
"Big fishes and little fishes,
Come and he caught!
Big fishes and little fishes,
Come and be caught!"
Cousin Fox came to watch Cousin Wolf fishing and walked round and round him, muttering under her breath:
"Shine, shine, stars in the skies, Freeze, freeze, tail in the ice!"
"What's that you're muttering, Cousin Fox?" asked the woll, "I want to help you. I'm singing to chase the fish towards your tail, Cousin Wolf."
And the- fox kept on walking round and round Cousin Wolf, whispering under her breath:
"Shine, shine, stars in the skies, Freeze, freeze, tail in the ice!" The wolf sat over that hole all night long and his tail froze in the ice. In the morning he wanted to get up, and what do you- think? He simply could not move. "What a lot of fish I must have caught," he, said to himself. "They're so heavy I can't pull them out!" Just then the goodwife came down
to the river to fetch water with her two buckets on a yoke. She saw the wolf sitting there on the ice and began to shout for help.
