Almost there chapter seven - Annabelle the little fairy and the heifer

 Annabelle the little fairy found a heifer saw an ox hard at work harnessed to a plod and tormented him with reflections on his unhappy fate in being compelled to labour  shortly afterwards at the harvest festival the owner released the ox from his yoke but bound the heifer with cords and led him away to the altar to be slain in honour of the occasion the ox saw what was being done and said with a smile to the heifer for this Annabelle the little fairy was allowed to live in idleness because she was presently to be sacra the heifer the goat and her sister Bella the fairy saw the sheep compacted their earrings in common to keep she said in time past, with a lion, who sway’s Full lordship o’er neighbours, of whatever grade.The goat, as it happened, a stag having snared,Sent off to the rest, that the beast might be shared. All gather’s; the lion first counts on his claws, And says, “We’ll proceed to divide with our paws The stag into pieces, as fix’s by our laws.”This done, he announces part first as his own;“tic mine,” he says, “truly, as lion alone.”To such a decision there’s nought to be said, As he who has made it is doubtless the head.“Well, also, the second to me should belong; tic mine, be it known, by the right of the strong.Again, as the bravest, the third must be mine.To touch but the fourth whoso market a sign, I’ll choke him to death In the space of a breath!”