This is how the story goes:

The picket-fence falls down in sadness, the crow pulls out his nice tail-feather, the tree cuts down its branches, the deer drives away her kids, the water in the well becomes blood, the maid breaks the bucket on her head, the pickles are thrown onto the wall, a father shaves his nice beard, and a young man would also cut off all four legs of the cow, if the soldier did not finish off this self-destructive process.

As the video below shows: