"You would be sad, too," said the cat, "if you were in my place; for now that I am getting old and cannot catch mice, they wish to drown me. I have run away, but how I am going to live, I do not know."
"Come with us to Bremen," said the donkey. "We are going to play in the band.
I know you love music, as you sing so well at night. You too can join the band."
"That is just what I should like to do," said the cat.
So the donkey, the dog, and the cat all walked on together.
After a time the three came to a farmyard.
There on the gate sat a cock, crying "Cock-a-doodle-doo" with all his might.
"Why are you making so much noise?" asked the donkey.