According to Niels' Travels with the Goose, just as the parade is in full swing, an accident occurs when Smythe the Fox bites one of the geese, destroying the harmony of the Crane Dance convention, and is banished by the Fox family, who bite off the tip of his right ear.
Niels' Travels with the Goose is a fairy tale by Swedish author Selma Lagerl?f, first published in 1907. Niels' Travels with the Goose is the first, and currently the only, fairy tale in the history of world literature to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.