German Quarter
The earliest known appearance of this fable is in the 1933 Russian novel, "The German Quarter", by Lev Nitoburg. The fable also appears in the 1944 novel, "The Hunter of the Pamirs", and this is the earliest known appearance of the fable in English. "The Hunter of the Pamirs" is an English translation of the 1940 Russian novel, "Jura" by Georgii Tushkan, but the fable does not appear in the original Russian.