As they went deeper into the woods they met a Cock, who gave them greeting and asked where they were going. Then the Sheep explained how they were too well off at home, and were going into the woods to build a house and set up housekeeping, "For," said the Sheep, "He who out of doors shall bake, loses at last both coal and cake." "Well," said the Cock, "that is just my case, for, It's far better to sit on one's own perch, for then one can never be left in the lurch; besides, All cocks crow loudest at home. If I may have your leave, I will come with you." But the Pig protested. "Flapping and crowing sets tongues a-going!" he exclaimed, "but, A jaw on a stick never yet laid a brick. How can you help us or make yourself useful?" "Oh," said the Cock, "That house will never have a clock where there is neither dog nor cock. I will wake you up every morning, and will cry the alarm when the dawn arises." "Very good," said the Pig, who was very like to oversleep. "Sleep is a greedy thief, and thinks nothing of robbing you of half your life. You may come with us." So they all set off together into the woods, and at last they came to a good place and built the house. The Pig hewed the timber, and the Sheep drew it home; the Hare was the carpenter, and the Goose gathered moss and filled all of the cracks and crevices, and the Cock wakened them every morning early. At last the house was done, and it was snug, and warm, and comfortable. "'Tis good to travel east and west, but, after all, a home is best," said the Sheep. And they lived together until cold weather came, when they put up a stove to keep warm, and they planned to enjoy the long winter. Now, not far off from the house lived the Wolf and his family, and his brother and his brother's family. And the Wolf and his brother saw the house which the Sheep and the Pig and the Goose and the Hare and the Cock had builded, and they talked together of how warm and comfortable it was, and the Wolf decided that they must get acquainted with their new neighbors. So he made up an errand and went to the door and said he had come to ask for a light to his pipe; and while the door was held open he pushed himself inside. Then all at once he found himself in a great confusion, for the Sheep butted him so hard that he fell against the stove; and the Pig gored and bit him; and the Goose nipped and pecked him; and the Hare ran about over the house, now on the floor and now aloft, so that the Wolf did not know who or what he was, and was scared out of his wits, and all the time the Cock perched on a top beam and flapped his wings and crowed and crowed. By-and-by the Wolf managed to get near the door and to dash through it. "Neighborhood makes for brotherhood," said the Wolf's brother. "You must have made good friends, since you remained so long. But what became of your errand, for you have neither pipe nor smoke?"