If the hen did not cackle no one would know what she had been about.
Tradizione danese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Dersom Hönen ikke kaglede, vidste man ikke hvad hun havde giort.
If the hen did not cackle no one would know what she had been about.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione danese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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