Puppetry today 4: Piggies in jail

Today J did one of what in the article I call his "trickster" scenarios, where he plays one group of animal friends off against another. He talked Friedel and Thusnelda into attempting to put the doggies into prison. But it was all a plot worked out with the doggies ahead of time, and the piggies were the ones who ended up in the klink. 

Note the big wooden play bolts screwed into the sides of the laundry basket; those piggies were not getting out! In fact, they stayed there all morning while J was at school. He talked about it all the way there with me and the doggies (who rode in the bike bags), and all the way back after I picked him up. 

One of the vocabulary lessons involved ways of saying that somebody deserves something. I had J tell the piggies:

Das habt ihr nun davon.
Das geschieht euch recht.
Das habt ihr reichlich verdient.
Das habt ihr euch selbst eingebrockt.

And the famous phrase from the Luther bible:

Wer anderen [Menschen] eine Grube gräbt, fällt selbst hinein. (Proverbs 26-27).

Thusnelda was not particularly edified.