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勇敢的小裁缝 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 夏季一个阳光明媚的早晨，一个小裁缝坐在靠窗的台子旁，竭尽全力地做着手中活儿。 这时，街上走来一个农家妇女，边走边吆喝：“买果酱啦！物美价廉呀！”小裁缝觉得这声 音挺悦耳，于是就将一头卷发的脑袋伸出了窗外，喊叫道： “上这儿来吧，亲爱的太太，您的货这儿有人要！” 农妇手提沉甸甸的篮子，跨上台阶，来到小裁缝跟前，按照他的吩咐打开一只又一只的 罐子。小裁缝挨个仔细察看，还把罐子举到鼻子跟前闻了又闻，最后才说道：“给我来四盎 司，亲爱的太太，半镑也行。” 农妇原来以为找到了好买主呢，她把小裁缝要的那一点点果酱如数秤给他之后，就气呼 呼地嘟哝着走了。 “愿上帝保佑，”小裁缝嚷嚷道，“这些果酱能给我带来好胃口。” 他从柜子里拿出面包，切了一片下来，把果酱涂在上面。“我心里有数，不会不可口 的，”他说，“不过我得先做完这件背心再吃。” 于是，他把涂了果酱的面包放在身旁，继续缝了起来，心里感到美滋滋的，针脚就一针 比一针大了。这时，果酱香甜的气味招引来了一群聚在墙上的苍蝇，它们纷纷落在面包上， 要品尝一下这美味佳肴。 “哪有你们的份啊？”小裁缝说着把苍蝇赶跑了。苍蝇才不理睬他说了什么，怎么也不 肯走，于是落在面包上的苍蝇越来越多了。这下子，小裁缝火冒三丈，随手抓起一条毛巾， 朝着苍蝇狠命地打了下去，打死了整整七只苍蝇，有的连腿都给打飞了。 “你可真了不起！”他说道，不禁对自己的勇敢大加赞赏，“全城的人都应该知道你的 壮举。”说罢，小裁缝风风火火地为自己裁剪了一条腰带，缝好后，在上面绣了几个醒目的 大字：“一下子打死七个！”“不仅仅是全城，”他突然喊了起来，“还得让全世界的人都 知道！”说到这儿，他的心激动得欢蹦乱跳，活像一只小羊羔的尾巴。 小裁缝把腰带系在腰间，打算出去闯世界，因为在他看来，凭着他的英勇无畏精神，再 留在小小的作坊里，就大材小用啦。动身前，他四下里搜寻了一番，看看有没有值得带上的 东西，却只发现了一快陈干酪，就随手装进口袋里。在门前，他发现灌木丛中绊住了一只小 鸟，便捉来放进装干酪的口袋里。 随后，他得意洋洋地上了路。由于个子矮小，他身轻如燕，走起来一点儿也不感到累。 走着走着，来到一座大山上。他到了山顶一看，发现一个力大无比的巨人正坐在那儿，悠然 自得地环顾左右。小裁缝壮着胆子走到巨人跟前，跟他打招呼： “你好，伙计。你坐在这儿眺望大世界，是吧？我正要去闯闯世界咧，怎么样，有没有 心思跟我一快儿去？” 巨人轻蔑地瞟了他一眼，扯着嗓子对他说：“你这个小可怜虫！弱不禁风的小瘪三！” “啊哈，你这么小看我，是吗？你再往这儿瞧瞧！”小裁缝回答道。说着解开上衣，露 出腰带来给巨人看。“你念一念就知道我是何等人啦。” 巨人念了起来：“一下子打死七个”。以为这位裁缝一下子打死的是七个人，心里不禁 对小裁缝产生几分敬意。不过，他决心要和小裁缝先试试身手，于是，就拣起一快石头来， 用手使劲一捏，捏得石头滴出了水。 “要是你真有力气，”巨人说，“也来这么一手吧。” “就这个呀？”小裁缝说，“对本人来说，跟玩儿似的。”说着把手伸进口袋里，掏出 那快软绵绵的干酪来，轻轻一捏，乳汁就冒了出来。 巨人看了不知说什么才好，却怀疑这么个小人儿是不是真有那么大的力气。随后，他又 拣起一快石头来，朝空中猛地一抛，石头飞得那么高，用肉眼几乎看不见了。 “喏，”巨人说，“可怜的小矮子，你也来一下。” “的确，扔得挺高，”小裁缝回敬道，“可是你扔的那快石头还是掉回到了地上。本人 给你露一手，扔出去就不会再掉回来。” 说罢，他从口袋里把那只小鸟抓出来，往空中一扔。重获自由的小鸟欢欢喜喜地飞走 了，头也不回地一下便无影无踪。“喂，伙计，这一手还行吧？”小裁缝问道。 “我不否认，扔东西你还行。”巨人回答说，“现在我再瞧瞧你能不能扛动沉重的东 西。” 他把小裁缝领到一棵已砍倒在地的大橡树跟前。“你要是真有力气，就帮我把这棵树从 林子里抬走。” “好的，”小裁缝说，“你扛树干，我扛树枝，这树枝可是最难弄的呀。” 巨人扛起树干，小裁缝却坐在了一根树枝上面。巨人没法回头看，不得不整个扛着大 树，还扛着坐在树枝上的小裁缝。 小裁缝坐在后面，心旷神怡，快乐地吹着口哨，还唱了几句“三个裁缝骑马出了城”这 首歌，抬树对他来说仿佛就是一场游戏而已。 巨人扛着沉重的大树走了一段路程，累得上气不接下气，嚷嚷着说他再也走不动了，必 须把树放下来。 小裁缝一下子跳了下来，用两只胳膊抱住树身，做出一副一路上抬着大树的样子，接着 对巨人说，“亏你这么个大块头，连棵树也扛不了！” 他们一快儿往前走着，来到一棵樱桃树前，树冠上挂满了熟透的樱桃。巨人一把抓住树 冠，拉低后递给小裁缝，让他吃个够。可小裁缝哪有这么大的力气抓住樱桃树呢，巨人一松 手，树就忽地一下直起了身，小裁缝也随着被弹到了空中。 小裁缝安然落地，巨人嚷嚷道：“咳！你连抓住这么一根小树枝的力气也没有啊？” “这和力气有何相干！”小裁缝回答说，“本人一下子能打死七个，你以为我连根小树 枝都抓不住吗？林子里有个猎人要朝我开枪，我才急急忙忙跑过树顶。你要是有能耐，跳给 我瞧瞧。” 巨人试了一下，却没能跳过去，而被挂在了枝丫间。这样一来，小裁缝又占了上风。 于是，巨人说：“你是一个了不起的小勇士，就请你到我的山洞里去过夜吧。” 小裁缝很愿意，就跟着他去了。他们来到洞中，只见还有一些巨人围坐在火堆旁，个个 手里拿着一只烤羊，像吃面包似的在吃着。小裁缝心想：“这儿可比我的作坊好多啦。”巨 人指给他一张床，叫他躺下休息。可这张床对小裁缝来说，实在是太大了，他没有躺在床中 间，而是爬到了一个角落里。半夜时分，那个巨人以为小裁缝睡熟了，抓起一根大铁钉，照 准床上猛地扎了下去，以为把这个小蚱蜢给解决了。 第二天拂晓，巨人们动身到林子里去，把小裁缝忘得一干二净。小裁缝仍然像往常一样 活蹦乱跳，无忧无虑，朝他们走去。巨人们一见，以为小裁缝要打死他们，个个吓得屁滚尿 流，拔腿就跑。小裁缝呢，继续赶他的路，一直往前走去。 走了很久，小裁缝来到一座王宫的院子里。这时，他已累得精疲力尽，便倒在地上睡着 了。他正躺在那儿睡的时候，不少人过来，看见了他腰带上绣的字：“一下子打死七个！” “哎呀！”他们心想，“这一定是位了不起的英雄。和平时期他到这里来干什么呢？”他们 立即去向国王禀报，说一旦战争爆发，此人大有用场，千万不能放他走呵。 国王很赞赏这个主意，便差了一位大臣去找小裁缝，等他一醒来，就请他在军队里效 力。这位使者站在一旁，眼睁睁地看着熟睡中的小裁缝，直等到小裁缝伸了伸懒腰，慢慢睁 开了双眼，才向他提出请求。 “我正是为此而来的，”小裁缝回答说，“本人很愿意为国王效劳。” 他于是受到了隆重的接待，得到了一处别致的住所。可是其他军官却很妒嫉，巴不得他 早点儿远远地离开这里。“要是我们和他打起来，”他们交谈着，“他一下子就能打死我们 七个，这可怎么是好呢？我们一败涂地呀。”后来，他们决定，一快儿去见国王，提出集体 辞职。“我们这号人呐，”他们跟国王解释说，“无法和一位一下子就打死七个人的大英雄 共事。” 因为一个人而要失去所有忠心耿耿的军官，国王感到十分难过，希望压根儿就没见过这 个小裁缝，巴不得能早早把他打发走。可是，国王却没有这个胆量把他赶走，担心小裁缝把 他和他的臣民都打死，自己登上王位。他绞尽脑汁，冥思苦想，终于想出一个主意。他派人 去告诉小裁缝，说小裁缝是一位出类拔萃、英勇无畏的英雄，因此希望向他做如下提议： 在他的领地上，有一座大森林，林中住着两个巨人，他们俩烧杀抢劫无恶不作，为害极 大，可是至今却没有谁敢冒生命危险去和他们较量。要是小裁缝能制服和杀死这两个巨人， 国王就答应把自己的独生女儿许配给他，并赐给他半个王国，而且还准备给他派去一百名骑 士，为他助阵。 “对你这样一个人来说，这是多么大的鼓舞呀，”小裁缝心里想道，“一位漂亮的公 主，还有半个王国，真是千载难逢的好机会啊。” 于是，他回答说：“当然可以啦，我去制服那两个巨人。那一百名骑士嘛，我并不需要 他们。我这样一个英雄，一下子能打死七个，那两个怎么会是我的对手呢。” 小裁缝出发了，后面跟着一百名骑士。他们来到森林前，他对这些骑士说：“你们就呆 在这儿，我一个人去收拾那两个家伙。”说罢，他独自跑进了林中，一边走着，一边环顾左 右。没多大一会儿，就发现了那两个巨人。他们俩躺在一棵大树下正睡觉呢，鼾声如雷，树 枝都快被震掉了。小裁缝忙着把两个口袋装满石头，然后爬到树上。爬到一半时，他悄悄地 攀上一根树枝，树枝下边就是那两个熟睡中的巨人的脑袋。接着，他把石头接二连三地朝一 个巨人的胸口使劲砸下去。这位大家伙有好一会动也不动一下，后来终于醒了，用力推了推 身边的同伴，问道：“你干嘛打我？” “你在做梦吧，”另一个回答说，“谁打你来着？” 说完，他们俩又躺下睡了。这回，小裁缝把一块石头朝第二个巨人砸了下去。 “干什么？”第二个嚷嚷起来，“干嘛拿石头打我呀？” “我没有哇。”第一个咆哮着回答说。 他们争吵了几句，却因为感到困乏，又闭上眼睛睡了。小裁缝呢，故伎重演，选了一块 最大的石头，朝第一个巨人狠命砸了下去。 “这太不像话啦！”第一个巨人吼了起来。他疯了一样地从地上一跃而起，把他的同伴 朝树上猛地一搡，撞得大树都摇晃起来了。第二个分毫不让，以牙还牙，两个家伙怒不可 遏，把一棵棵大树连根拔起，朝着对方猛扔过去，最后他们两败俱伤，都倒在地上死了。 小裁缝立即从树上跳了下来。“真是万幸，”他说道，“他们没有拔掉我刚才上的那棵 树。” 说罢，他拔出剑来，在每个巨人的胸口上猛刺一剑，然后他走到那些骑士面前说：“完 事了，那两个巨人都被我给解决了，可真是一场惊心动魄的遭遇呀。他们见势不妙就把大树 连根拔起进行顽抗，当然啦，面对本人这样一下子能打死七个的英雄，那是徒劳的。” 骑士们策马跑进森林一看，两个巨人躺在血泊之中，四周还有连根拔出的大树，这才相 信了小裁缝的话。 返回后，小裁缝要求国王把答应给他的奖赏赐给他，国王却后悔了，又左思右想，考虑 怎样才能把小裁缝打发走。 “你在得到我的女儿和半个王国之前，”他说，“必须再完成一个壮举。在那座森林 里，有一头危害很大的独角兽，你必须把它捕捉住。” “两个巨人我都没怕，一头独角兽又有什么可怕的呀。”小裁缝吹嘘道。 小裁缝带着一根绳索和一把斧头便动身去了森林，告诉他的随从们在森林外等着。他没 找多大功夫，便发现那头独角兽就在眼前，并且正向他直冲过来。 他纹丝不动地站在那里，等独角兽逼近了，敏捷地一下子跳到树后。独角兽发疯似的朝 大树撞过来，把角牢牢地戳进了树干里，怎么拔也拔不出来，就被捉住了。 “伙计，这回我可逮住你啦，”小裁缝从树后转出来后说道。他用那根绳索把独角兽的 脖子捆了起来，然后用斧头劈开树干，松开兽角，牵着独角兽回去见国王。 谁知国王还是不肯把答应给小裁缝的奖赏赐给他，又提出了第三个条件。他必须再到森 林里去把一头危害很大的野猪逮住，然后才举行婚礼。 “我很乐意去，”小裁缝回答说，“逮住一头野猪那还不是跟玩儿似的。” 野猪一见小裁缝，就口里冒着白沫，咬着牙，朝他猛冲过来，想一头把他撞倒在地。谁 知勇敢的小裁缝敏捷地跳进了旁边的一座小教堂，眨眼之间，又从窗口跳了出去。野猪追进 了教堂，小裁缝从教堂后面几步跑了过来，把门关住，气势汹汹的野猪又重又笨，没法从窗 口跳出去，就这样被擒住了。 然后，勇敢的小裁缝去见国王，告诉他说，愿意也罢，不愿意也罢，他这次必须信守诺 言，把他的女儿和半个王国赏赐给他。 他们的婚礼隆重举行，欢笑却很少。不过，小裁缝还是当上了国王啦。 不久，年轻的王后在一天夜里听见丈夫说梦话。小裁缝在梦中大声地嚷嚷着：“徒弟， 快点儿把这件背心缝好，再把这条裤子补一补，不然我就让你的脑袋尝尝尺子的厉害。”这 样一来，她便弄清了她的君主和丈夫是什么出身。第二天一早就对父亲大发牢骚，抱怨国王 给她选择的丈夫只不过是一个下贱的裁缝。 国王安慰她说：“今天晚上，你打开化妆室的门，我派侍从守在外边，等他睡着了，我 的侍从就悄悄地进去把他捆起来，然后放到一艘船上，把他送到天涯海角。” 当了国王的小裁缝有个男仆，听见了老国王说的话，就把这个阴谋禀报了主子。 到了晚上，小裁缝像往常一样按时上床就寝，躺在妻子身边。她以为他已经入睡，就从 床上爬起来，打开了化妆室的门，然后又躺在床上。小裁缝只是在装睡，这时便开始尖着嗓 子喊叫起来：“徒弟，把这件背心缝好，再把这条裤子补一补，不然我就让你的脑袋尝尝尺 子的厉害。我一下子打死了七个，杀死了两个巨人，捉住了一头独角兽，还逮住了一头大野 猪，难道我还怕化妆室里的哪一个不成？”听到了小裁缝的这一番话，打算把他捆绑起来的 那几个人，个个吓得要死，拔腿就逃走啦。从此，再没有谁敢碰他一根毫毛。就这样，勇敢 的小裁缝继续当他的国王，一直当到离开人世。 ------------------ 
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21 / Cinderella The wife of a rich man fell sick, and as she felt that her end was drawing near, she called her only daughter to her bedside and said, "Dear child, be good and pious, and then the good God will always protect thee, and I will look down on thee from heaven and be near thee." Thereupon she closed her eyes and departed. Every day the maiden went out to her mother's grave, and wept, and she remained pious and good. When winter came the snow spread a white sheet over the grave, and when the spring sun had drawn it off again, the man had taken another wife. The woman had brought two daughters into the house with her, who were beautiful and fair of face, but vile and black of heart. Now began a bad time for the poor step-child. "Is the stupid goose to sit in the parlour with us?" said they. "He who wants to eat bread must earn it; out with the kitchen-wench." They took her pretty clothes away from her, put an old grey bedgown on her, and gave her wooden shoes. "Just look at the proud princess, how decked out she is!" they cried, and laughed, and led her into the kitchen. There she had to do hard work from morning till night, get up before daybreak, carry water, light fires, cook and wash. Besides this, the sisters did her every imaginable injury -- they mocked her and emptied her peas and lentils into the ashes, so that she was forced to sit and pick them out again. In the evening when she had worked till she was weary she had no bed to go to, but had to sleep by the fireside in the ashes. And as on that account she always looked dusty and dirty, they called her Cinderella. It happened that the father was once going to the fair, and he asked his two step-daughters what he should bring back for them. "Beautiful dresses," said one, "Pearls and jewels," said the second. "And thou, Cinderella," said he, "what wilt thou have?" "Father, break off for me the first branch which knocks against your hat on your way home." So he bought beautiful dresses, pearls and jewels for his two step-daughters, and on his way home, as he was riding through a green thicket, a hazel twig brushed against him and knocked off his hat. Then he broke off the branch and took it with him. When he reached home he gave his step-daughters the things which they had wished for, and to Cinderella he gave the branch from the hazel-bush. Cinderella thanked him, went to her mother's grave and planted the branch on it, and wept so much that the tears fell down on it and watered it. And it grew, however, and became a handsome tree. Thrice a day Cinderella went and sat beneath it, and wept and prayed, and a little white bird always came on the tree, and if Cinderella expressed a wish, the bird threw down to her what she had wished for. It happened, however, that the King appointed a festival which was to last three days, and to which all the beautiful young girls in the country were invited, in order that his son might choose himself a bride. When the two step-sisters heard that they too were to appear among the number, they were delighted, called Cinderella and said, "Comb our hair for us, brush our shoes and fasten our buckles, for we are going to the festival at the King's palace." Cinderella obeyed, but wept, because she too would have liked to go with them to the dance, and begged her step-mother to allow her to do so. "Thou go, Cinderella!" said she; "Thou art dusty and dirty and wouldst go to the festival? Thou hast no clothes and shoes, and yet wouldst dance!" As, however, Cinderella went on asking, the step-mother at last said, "I have emptied a dish of lentils into the ashes for thee, if thou hast picked them out again in two hours, thou shalt go with us." The maiden went through the back-door into the garden, and called, "You tame pigeons, you turtle-doves, and all you birds beneath the sky, come and help me to pick "The good into the pot, The bad into the crop." Then two white pigeons came in by the kitchen-window, and afterwards the turtle-doves, and at last all the birds beneath the sky, came whirring and crowding in, and alighted amongst the ashes. And the pigeons nodded with their heads and began pick, pick, pick, pick, and the rest began also pick, pick, pick, pick, and gathered all the good grains into the dish. Hardly had one hour passed before they had finished, and all flew out again. Then the girl took the dish to her step-mother, and was glad, and believed that now she would be allowed to go with them to the festival. But the step-mother said, "No, Cinderella, thou hast no clothes and thou canst not dance; thou wouldst only be laughed at." And as Cinderella wept at this, the step-mother said, "If thou canst pick two dishes of lentils out of the ashes for me in one hour, thou shalt go with us." And she thought to herself, "That she most certainly cannot do." When the step-mother had emptied the two dishes of lentils amongst the ashes, the maiden went through the back-door into the garden and cried, You tame pigeons, you turtle-doves, and all you birds under heaven, come and help me to pick "The good into the pot, The bad into the crop." Then two white pigeons came in by the kitchen-window, and afterwards the turtle-doves, and at length all the birds beneath the sky, came whirring and crowding in, and alighted amongst the ashes. And the doves nodded with their heads and began pick, pick, pick, pick, and the others began also pick, pick, pick, pick, and gathered all the good seeds into the dishes, and before half an hour was over they had already finished, and all flew out again. Then the maiden carried the dishes to the step-mother and was delighted, and believed that she might now go with them to the festival. But the step-mother said, "All this will not help thee; thou goest not with us, for thou hast no clothes and canst not dance; we should be ashamed of thee!" On this she turned her back on Cinderella, and hurried away with her two proud daughters. As no one was now at home, Cinderella went to her mother's grave beneath the hazel-tree, and cried, "Shiver and quiver, little tree, Silver and gold throw down over me." Then the bird threw a gold and silver dress down to her, and slippers embroidered with silk and silver. She put on the dress with all speed, and went to the festival. Her step-sisters and the step-mother however did not know her, and thought she must be a foreign princess, for she looked so beautiful in the golden dress. They never once thought of Cinderella, and believed that she was sitting at home in the dirt, picking lentils out of the ashes. The prince went to meet her, took her by the hand and danced with her. He would dance with no other maiden, and never left loose of her hand, and if any one else came to invite her, he said, "This is my partner." She danced till it was evening, and then she wanted to go home. But the King's son said, "I will go with thee and bear thee company," for he wished to see to whom the beautiful maiden belonged. She escaped from him, however, and sprang into the pigeon-house. The King's son waited until her father came, and then he told him that the stranger maiden had leapt into the pigeon-house. The old man thought, "Can it be Cinderella?" and they had to bring him an axe and a pickaxe that he might hew the pigeon-house to pieces, but no one was inside it. And when they got home Cinderella lay in her dirty clothes among the ashes, and a dim little oil-lamp was burning on the mantle-piece, for Cinderella had jumped quickly down from the back of the pigeon-house and had run to the little hazel-tree, and there she had taken off her beautiful clothes and laid them on the grave, and the bird had taken them away again, and then she had placed herself in the kitchen amongst the ashes in her grey gown. Next day when the festival began afresh, and her parents and the step-sisters had gone once more, Cinderella went to the hazel-tree and said -- "Shiver and quiver, my little tree, Silver and gold throw down over me." Then the bird threw down a much more beautiful dress than on the preceding day. And when Cinderella appeared at the festival in this dress, every one was astonished at her beauty. The King's son had waited until she came, and instantly took her by the hand and danced with no one but her. When others came and invited her, he said, "She is my partner." When evening came she wished to leave, and the King's son followed her and wanted to see into which house she went. But she sprang away from him, and into the garden behind the house. Therein stood a beautiful tall tree on which hung the most magnificent pears. She clambered so nimbly between the branches like a squirrel that the King's son did not know where she was gone. He waited until her father came, and said to him, "The stranger-maiden has escaped from me, and I believe she has climbed up the pear-tree." The father thought, "Can it be Cinderella?" and had an axe brought and cut the tree down, but no one was on it. And when they got into the kitchen, Cinderella lay there amongst the ashes, as usual, for she had jumped down on the other side of the tree, had taken the beautiful dress to the bird on the little hazel-tree, and put on her grey gown. On the third day, when the parents and sisters had gone away, Cinderella went once more to her mother's grave and said to the little tree -- "Shiver and quiver, my little tree, Silver and gold throw down over me." And now the bird threw down to her a dress which was more splendid and magnificent than any she had yet had, and the slippers were golden. And when she went to the festival in the dress, no one knew how to speak for astonishment. The King's son danced with her only, and if any one invited her to dance, he said, "She is my partner." When evening came, Cinderella wished to leave, and the King's son was anxious to go with her, but she escaped from him so quickly that he could not follow her. The King's son had, however, used a strategem, and had caused the whole staircase to be smeared with pitch, and there, when she ran down, had the maiden's left slipper remained sticking. The King's son picked it up, and it was small and dainty, and all golden. Next morning, he went with it to the father, and said to him, "No one shall be my wife but she whose foot this golden slipper fits." Then were the two sisters glad, for they had pretty feet. The eldest went with the shoe into her room and wanted to try it on, and her mother stood by. But she could not get her big toe into it, and the shoe was too small for her. Then her mother gave her a knife and said, "Cut the toe off; when thou art Queen thou wilt have no more need to go on foot." The maiden cut the toe off, forced the foot into the shoe, swallowed the pain, and went out to the King's son. Then he took her on his his horse as his bride and rode away with her. They were, however, obliged to pass the grave, and there, on the hazel-tree, sat the two pigeons and cried, "Turn and peep, turn and peep, There's blood within the shoe, The shoe it is too small for her, The true bride waits for you." Then he looked at her foot and saw how the blood was streaming from it. He turned his horse round and took the false bride home again, and said she was not the true one, and that the other sister was to put the shoe on. Then this one went into her chamber and got her toes safely into the shoe, but her heel was too large. So her mother gave her a knife and said, "Cut a bit off thy heel; when thou art Queen thou wilt have no more need to go on foot." The maiden cut a bit off her heel, forced her foot into the shoe, swallowed the pain, and went out to the King's son. He took her on his horse as his bride, and rode away with her, but when they passed by the hazel-tree, two little pigeons sat on it and cried, "Turn and peep, turn and peep, There's blood within the shoe The shoe it is too small for her, The true bride waits for you." He looked down at her foot and saw how the blood was running out of her shoe, and how it had stained her white stocking. Then he turned his horse and took the false bride home again. "This also is not the right one," said he, "have you no other daughter?" "No," said the man, "There is still a little stunted kitchen-wench which my late wife left behind her, but she cannot possibly be the bride." The King's son said he was to send her up to him; but the mother answered, "Oh, no, she is much too dirty, she cannot show herself!" He absolutely insisted on it, and Cinderella had to be called. She first washed her hands and face clean, and then went and bowed down before the King's son, who gave her the golden shoe. Then she seated herself on a stool, drew her foot out of the heavy wooden shoe, and put it into the slipper, which fitted like a glove. And when she rose up and the King's son looked at her face he recognized the beautiful maiden who had danced with him and cried, "That is the true bride!" The step-mother and the two sisters were terrified and became pale with rage; he, however, took Cinderella on his horse and rode away with her. As they passed by the hazel-tree, the two white doves cried -- "Turn and peep, turn and peep, No blood is in the shoe, The shoe is not too small for her, The true bride rides with you," and when they had cried that, the two came flying down and placed themselves on Cinderella's shoulders, one on the right, the other on the left, and remained sitting there. When the wedding with the King's son had to be celebrated, the two false sisters came and wanted to get into favour with Cinderella and share her good fortune. When the betrothed couple went to church, the elder was at the right side and the younger at the left, and the pigeons pecked out one eye of each of them. Afterwards as they came back, the elder was at the left, and the younger at the right, and then the pigeons pecked out the other eye of each. And thus, for their wickedness and falsehood, they were punished with blindness as long as they lived.
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灰姑娘 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 从前，有一个富人的妻子得了重病，在临终前，她把自己的独生女儿叫到身边说：“乖 女儿，妈去了以后会在九泉之下守护你、保佑你的。”说完她就闭上眼睛死了。 她被葬在了花园里，小姑娘是一个虔诚而又善良的女孩，她每天都到她母亲的坟前去哭 泣。冬天来了，大雪为她母亲的坟盖上了白色的毛毯。春风吹来，太阳又卸去了坟上的银装 素裹。冬去春来，人过境迁，他爸爸又娶了另外一个妻子。 新妻子带着她以前生的两个女儿一起来安家了。她们外表很美丽，但是内心却非常丑陋 邪恶。她们到来之时，也就是这个可怜的小姑娘身受苦难之始。她们说：“要这样一个没用 的饭桶在厅堂里干什么？谁想吃上面包，谁就得自己去挣得，滚到厨房里做厨房女佣去 吧！”说完又脱去她漂亮的衣裳，给她换上灰色的旧外套，恶作剧似地嘲笑她，把她赶到厨 房里去了。她被迫去干艰苦的活儿。每天天不亮就起来担水、生火、做饭、洗衣，而且还要 忍受她们姐妹对她的漠视和折磨。到了晚上，她累得筋疲力尽时，连睡觉的床铺也没有，不 得不睡在炉灶旁边的灰烬中，这一来她身上都沾满了灰烬，又脏，又难看，由于这个原因她 们就叫她灰姑娘。 有一次，父亲要到集市去，他问妻子的两个女儿，要他给她们带什么回来。第一个说： “我要漂亮的衣裳。”第二个叫道：“我要珍珠和钻石。”他又对自己的女儿说：“孩子， 你想要什么？”灰姑娘说：“亲爱的爸爸，就把你回家路上碰着你帽子的第一根树枝折给我 吧。”父亲回来时，他为前两个女儿带回了她们想要的漂亮衣服和珍珠钻石。在路上，他穿 过一片浓密的矮树林时，有一根榛树枝条碰着了他，几乎把他的帽子都要扫下来了，所以他 把这根树枝折下来带上了。回到家里时，他把树枝给了他女儿，她拿着树枝来到母亲的坟 前，将它栽到了坟边。她每天都要到坟边哭三次，每次伤心地哭泣时，泪水就会不断地滴落 在树枝上，浇灌着它，使树枝很快长成了一棵漂亮的大树。不久，有一只小鸟来树上筑巢， 她与小鸟交谈起来。后来她想要什么，小鸟都会给她带来。 国王为了给自己的儿子选择未婚妻，准备举办一个为期三天的盛大宴会，邀请了不少年 青漂亮的姑娘来参加。王子打算从这些参加舞会的姑娘中选一个作自己的新娘。灰姑娘的两 个姐姐也被邀请去参加。她们把她叫来说道：“现在来为我们梳好头发，擦亮鞋子，系好腰 带，我们要去参加国王举办的舞会。”她按她们的要求给她们收拾打扮完毕后，禁不住哭了 起来，因为她自己也想去参加舞会。她苦苦哀求她的继母让她去，可继母说道：“哎哟！灰 姑娘，你也想去？你穿什么去呀！你连礼服也没有，甚至连舞也不会跳，你想去参加什么舞 会啊？”灰姑娘不停地哀求着，为了摆脱她的纠缠，继母最后说道：“我把这一满盆碗豆倒 进灰堆里去，如果你在两小时内把它们都拣出来了，你就可以去参加宴会。”说完，她将一 盆碗豆倒进灰烬里，扬长而去。灰姑娘没办法，只好跑出后门来到花园里喊道： “掠过天空的鸽子和斑鸠， 飞来吧！飞到这里来吧！ 快乐的鸟雀朋友们， 飞来吧！快快飞到这里来吧！ 大伙快来帮我忙， 快快拣出灰中的碗豆来吧！” 先飞来的是从厨房窗子进来的两只白鸽，跟着飞来的是两只斑鸠，接着天空中所有的小 鸟都叽叽喳喳地拍动着翅膀，飞到了灰堆上。小白鸽低下头开始在灰堆里拣起来，一颗一颗 地拣，不停地拣！其它的鸟儿也开始拣，一颗一颗地拣，不停地拣！它们把所有的好豆子都 从灰里拣出来放到了一个盘子里面，只用一个小时就拣完了。她向它们道谢后，鸟雀从窗子 里飞走开了。她怀着兴奋的心情，端着盘子去找继母，以为自己可以去参加舞宴了。但她却 说道：“不行，不行！你这个邋遢女孩，你没有礼服，不会跳舞，你不能去。”灰姑娘又苦 苦地哀求她让她去。继母这次说道：“如果你能在一个小时之内把这样的两盘碗豆从灰堆里 拣出来，你就可以去了。”她满以为这次可以摆脱灰姑娘了，说完将两盘碗豆倒进了灰堆 里，还搅和了一会，然后得意洋洋地走了。但小姑娘又跑到屋后的花园里和前次一样地喊道： “掠过天空的鸽子和斑鸠， 飞来吧！飞到这里来吧！ 快乐的鸟雀朋友们， 飞来吧！快快飞到这里来吧！ 大伙快来帮我忙， 快快拣出灰中的碗豆来吧！” 先飞来的是从厨房窗子进来的两只白鸽，跟着飞来的是两只斑鸠，接着天空中所有的小 鸟都叽叽喳喳地拍动着翅膀，飞到了灰堆上。小白鸽低下头开始在灰堆里拣起来，一颗一颗 地拣，不停地拣！其它的鸟儿也开始拣，一颗一颗地拣，不停地拣！它们把所有的好豆子都 从灰里拣出来放到了盘子里面，这次只用半个小时就拣完了。鸟雀们飞去之后，灰姑娘端着 盘子去找继母，怀着极其兴奋的心情，以为自己可以去参加舞会了。但继母却说道：“算 了！你别再白费劲了，你是不能去的。你没有礼服，不会跳舞，你只会给我们丢脸。”说完 他们夫妻与她自己的两个女儿出发参加宴会去了。 现在，家里的人都走了，只留下灰姑娘孤伶伶地一个人悲伤地坐在榛树下哭泣： “榛树啊！请你帮帮我， 请你摇一摇， 为我抖落金银礼服一整套。” 她的朋友小鸟从树上飞出来，为她带了一套金银制成的礼服和一双光亮的丝制舞鞋。收 拾打扮、穿上礼服之后，灰姑娘在她两个姐妹之后来到了舞厅。穿上豪华的礼服之后，她看 起来是如此高雅、漂亮、美丽动人极了。她们都认不出她，以为她一定是一位陌生的公主， 根本就没有想到她就是灰姑娘，她们以为灰姑娘仍老老实实地待在家中的灰堆里呢。 王子看到她，很快向她走来，伸出手挽着她，请她跳起舞来。他再也不和其他姑娘跳舞 了，他的手始终不肯放开她。每当有人来请她跳舞时，王子总是说：“这位女士在与我跳 舞。”他们一起跳到很晚，她才想起要回家去了。王子想知道这位美丽的姑娘到底住在哪 里，所以说道：“我送你回家去吧。”灰姑娘表面上同意了，但却趁他不注意时，悄悄地溜 走，拔腿向家里跑去。王子在后面紧追不舍，她只好跳进鸽子房并把门关上。王子等在外面 不肯离去，一直到她父亲回家时，王子才上前告诉他，说那位他在舞会上遇到的不知道姓名 的姑娘藏进了这间鸽子房。当他们砸开鸽子房门时，里面却已空无一人，他只好失望地回宫 去了。父母进屋子时，灰姑娘已经身穿邋遢的衣服躺在灰堆边上了，就像她一直躺在那儿似 地，昏暗的小油灯在烟囱柱上的墙洞里摇晃着。实际上，灰姑娘刚才很快穿过鸽子房来到榛 树前脱下了漂亮的礼服，将它们放回树上，让小鸟把它们带走，自己则回到屋里坐到了灰堆 上，穿上了她那灰色的外套。 第二天，当舞会又要开始时，她的爸爸、继母和两个姐妹都去了。灰姑娘来到树下说： “榛树啊！请你帮帮我， 请你摇一摇， 为我抖落金银礼服一整套。” 那只小鸟来了，它带来了一套比她前一天穿的那套更加漂亮的礼服。当她来到舞会大厅 时，她的美丽使所有的人惊讶不已。一直在等待她到来的王子立即上前挽着她的手，请她跳 起舞来。每当有人要请她跳舞时，他总是和前一天一样说：“这位女士在与我跳舞。”到了 半夜她要回家去的时候，王子也和前一天一样跟着她，以为这样可以看到她进了哪一幢房 子。但她还是甩掉了他，并立即跳进了她父亲房子后面的花园里。花园里有一棵很漂亮的大 梨树，树上结满了成熟的梨。灰姑娘不知道自己该藏在什么地方，只好爬到了树上。王子没 有看到她，他不知道她去了哪儿，只好又一直等到她父亲回来，才走上前对他说：“那个与 我跳舞的不知姓名的姑娘溜走了，我认为她肯定是跳上梨树去了。”父亲暗想：“难道是灰 姑娘吗？”于是，他要人去拿来一柄斧子，把树砍倒了一看，树上根本没有人。当父亲和继 母到厨房来看时，灰姑娘和平时一样正躺在灰烬里。原来她跳上梨树后，又从树的另一边溜 下来，脱下漂亮的礼服，让榛树上的小鸟带了回去，然后又穿上了她自己的灰色小外套。 第三天，当她父亲、继母和两个姐妹走了以后，她又来到花园里说道： “榛树啊！请你帮帮我， 请你摇一摇， 为我抖落金银礼服一整套。” 她善良的朋友又带来了一套比第二天那套更加漂亮的礼服和一双纯金编制的舞鞋。当她 赶到舞会现场时，大家都被她那无法用语言表达的美给惊呆了。王子只与她一个人跳舞，每 当有其他人请她跳舞时，他总是说：“这位女士是我的舞伴。”当午夜快要来临时，她要回 家了，王子又要送她回去，并暗暗说道：“这次我可不能让她跑掉了。”然而，灰姑娘还是 设法从他身边溜走了。由于走得过于匆忙，她竟把左脚的金舞鞋失落在楼梯上了。 王子将舞鞋拾起，第二天来到他的国王父亲面前说：“我要娶正好能穿上这只金舞鞋的 姑娘作我的妻子。”灰姑娘的两个姐妹听到这个消息后非常高兴，因为她们都有一双很漂亮 的脚，她们认为自己穿上那只舞鞋是毫无疑问的。姐姐由她妈妈陪着先到房子里去试穿那只 舞鞋，可她的大脚趾却穿不进去，那只鞋对她来说太小了。于是她妈妈拿给她一把刀说： “没关系，把大脚趾切掉！只要你当上了王后，还在乎这脚趾头干嘛，你想到哪儿去根本就 不需要用脚了。”大女儿听了，觉得有道理，这傻姑娘忍着痛苦切掉了自己的大脚趾，勉强 穿在脚上来到王子面。王子看她穿好了鞋子，就把她当成了新娘，与她并排骑在马上，把她 带走了。 但在他们出门回王宫的路上，经过后花园灰姑娘栽的那棵榛树时，停在树枝上的一只小 鸽子唱道： “再回去！再回去！ 快看那只鞋！ 鞋太小，不是为她做的！ 王子！王子！ 再找你的新娘吧， 坐在你身边的不是你的新娘！” 王子听见后，下马盯着她的脚看，发现鲜血正从鞋子里流出来，他知道自己被欺骗了， 马上掉转马头，把假新娘带回她的家里说道：“这不是真新娘，让另一个妹妹来试试这只鞋 子吧。”于是妹妹试着把鞋穿在脚上，脚前面进去了，可脚后跟太大了，就是穿不进去。她 妈妈让她削去脚后跟穿进去，然后拉着她来到王子面前。王子看她穿好了鞋子，就把她当做 新娘扶上马，并肩坐在一起离去了。 但当他们经过榛树时，小鸽子仍栖息在树枝头上，它唱道： “再回去！再回去！ 快看那只鞋！ 鞋太小，不是为她做的！ 王子！王子！ 再找你的新娘吧， 坐在你身边的不是你的新娘！” 王子低头一看，发现血正从舞鞋里流出来，连她的白色长袜也浸红了，他拨转马头，同 样把她送了回去，对她的父亲说：”这不是真新娘，你还有女儿吗？“父亲回答说：“没有 了，只有我前妻生的一个叫灰姑娘的小邋遢女儿，她不可能是新娘的。”然而，王子一定要 他把她带来试一试。灰姑娘先把脸和手洗干净，然后走进来很有教养地向王子屈膝行礼。王 子把舞鞋拿给她穿，鞋子穿在她脚上就像是专门为她做的一样。他走上前仔细看清楚她的脸 后，认出了她，马上兴奋的说道：“这才是我真正的新娘。”继母和她的两个姐妹大吃一 惊，当王子把灰姑娘扶上马时，她们气得脸都发白了，眼睁睁地看着王子把她带走了。他们 来到榛树边时，小白鸽唱道： “回家吧！回家吧！ 快看那只鞋！ 王妃！这是为你做的鞋！ 王子！王子！ 快带新娘回家去， 坐在你身边的才是真正的新娘” 鸽子唱完之后，飞上前来，停在了灰姑娘的右肩上。他们一起向王宫走去。 ------------------
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22 / The Riddle There was once a King's son who was seized with a desire to travel about the world, and took no one with him but a faithful servant. One day he came to a great forest, and when darkness overtook him he could find no shelter, and knew not where to pass the night. Then he saw a girl who was going towards a small house, and when he came nearer, he saw that the maiden was young and beautiful. He spoke to her, and said, "Dear child, can I and my servant find shelter for the night in the little house?" "Oh, yes," said the girl in a sad voice, "that you certainly can, but I do not advise you to venture it. Do not go in." "Why not?" asked the King's son. The maiden sighed and said, "My step-mother practises wicked arts; she is ill-disposed toward strangers." Then he saw very well that he had come to the house of a witch, but as it was dark, and he could not go farther, and also was not afraid, he entered. The old woman was sitting in an armchair by the fire, and looked at the stranger with her red eyes. "Good evening," growled she, and pretended to be quite friendly. "Take a seat and rest yourselves." She blew up the fire on which she was cooking something in a small pot. The daughter warned the two to be prudent, to eat nothing, and drink nothing, for the old woman brewed evil drinks. They slept quietly until early morning. When they were making ready for their departure, and the King's son was already seated on his horse, the old woman said, "Stop a moment, I will first hand you a parting draught." Whilst she fetched it, the King's son rode away, and the servant who had to buckle his saddle tight, was the only one present when the wicked witch came with the drink. "Take that to your master," said she. But at that instant the glass broke and the poison spirted on the horse, and it was so strong that the animal immediately fell down dead. The servant ran after his master and told him what had happened, but would not leave his saddle behind him, and ran back to fetch it. When, however, he came to the dead horse a raven was already sitting on it devouring it. "Who knows whether we shall find anything better to-day?" said the servant; so he killed the raven, and took it with him. And now they journeyed onwards into the forest the whole day, but could not get out of it. By nightfall they found an inn and entered it. The servant gave the raven to the innkeeper to make ready for supper. They had, however, stumbled on a den of murderers, and during the darkness twelve of these came, intending to kill the strangers and rob them. Before they set about this work, they sat down to supper, and the innkeeper and the witch sat down with them, and together they ate a dish of soup in which was cut up the flesh of the raven. Hardly, however, had they swallowed a couple of mouthfuls, before they all fell down dead, for the raven had communicated to them the poison from the horse-flesh. There was no no one else left in the house but the innkeeper's daughter, who was honest, and had taken no part in their godless deeds. She opened all doors to the stranger and showed him the heaped-up treasures. But the King's son said she might keep everything, he would have none of it, and rode onwards with his servant. After they had traveled about for a long time, they came to a town in which was a beautiful but proud princess, who had caused it to be proclaimed that whosoever should set her a riddle which she could not guess, that man should be her husband; but if she guessed it, his head must be cut off. She had three days to guess it in, but was so clever that she always found the answer to the riddle given her, before the appointed time. Nine suitors had already perished in this manner, when the King's son arrived, and blinded by her great beauty, was willing to stake his life for it. Then he went to her and laid his riddle before her. "What is this?" said he, "One slew none, and yet slew twelve." She did not know what that was, she thought and thought, but she could not find out, she opened her riddle-books, but it was not in them -- in short, her wisdom was at an end. As she did not know how to help herself, she ordered her maid to creep into the lord's sleeping-chamber, and listen to his dreams, and thought that he would perhaps speak in his sleep and discover the riddle. But the clever servant had placed himself in the bed instead of his master, and when the maid came there, he tore off from her the mantle in which she had wrapped herself, and chased her out with rods. The second night the King's daughter sent her maid-in-waiting, who was to see if she could succeed better in listening, but the servant took her mantle also away from her, and hunted her out with rods. Now the master believed himself safe for the third night, and lay down in his own bed. Then came the princess herself, and she had put on a misty-grey mantle, and she seated herself near him. And when she thought that he was asleep and dreaming, she spoke to him, and hoped that he would answer in his sleep, as many do, but he was awake, and understood and heard everything quite well. Then she asked, "One slew none, what is that?" He replied, "A raven, which ate of a dead and poisoned horse, and died of it." She inquired further, "And yet slew twelve, what is that?" He answered, "That means twelve murderers, who ate the raven and died of it." When she knew the answer to the riddle she wanted to steal away, but he held her mantle so fast that she was forced to leave it behind her. Next morning, the King's daughter announced that she had guessed the riddle, and sent for the twelve judges and expounded it before them. But the youth begged for a hearing, and said, "She stole into my room in the night and questioned me, otherwise she could not have discovered it." The judges said, "Bring us a proof of this." Then were the three mantles brought thither by the servant, and when the judges saw the misty-grey one which the King's daughter usually wore, they said, "Let the mantle be embroidered with gold and silver, and then it will be your wedding-mantle.
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谜语 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 从前有位王子，一时兴起去周游世界，身边只带了一个忠实的仆人。一天，他来到了一 片大森林，天黑时，没有找到住处，不知道该在哪里过夜。这时，他看到一个姑娘向一间小 屋走去，便跑上前，结果发现这位姑娘既美丽又年轻。他和她打招呼，说：“好姑娘，我和 我的仆人可以在这小屋里过一夜吗？”“唉，”姑娘哀伤地说，“可以是可以，但我劝你们 最好还是别进去。”“为什么？”王子问。姑娘叹了口气说：“我的继母会巫术，她对陌生 人不怀好意。”王子这才明白自己来到了巫婆的家，可是天已经黑了，他无法再往前走，再 加上他胆子很大，便进了屋。老巫婆坐在炉子旁的一张扶手椅上，红红的眼睛望着进来的陌 生人。“晚上好，”她用嘶哑的声音说，并且竭力装出一副友好的样子，“坐下来歇歇脚 吧。”她把炉火扇旺一些，炉子上还有一只小锅子在煮着什么东西。姑娘警告两位客人千万 要小心，什么也不要吃，什么也不要喝，因为老巫婆熬的是魔汤。他们安安静静地一直睡到 天亮，然后便准备动身上路，王子这时已经骑到了马背上了，老巫婆却说：“等一等，我还 想请你们喝杯饯行的酒呢。”趁她回去拿酒时，王子赶紧骑马走了。所以当邪恶的老巫婆端 着酒回来时，只有王子的仆人还在那里勒马鞍。“把这杯酒带给你的主人，”她说，可就在 这一刹那，杯子破了，毒酒溅在马身上，立刻把马毒死了。仆人追上王子，把发生的事情告 诉了他。仆人舍不得那马鞍，便跑回去取。可当他跑到死马那里时，竟见一只乌鸦蹲在马的 身上，大口大口地吃着马肉。“谁知道今天还能不能找到更好的东西呢。”仆人心想，便打 死了乌鸦，带着它走了。他们在森林里继续走了整整一天，可怎么也走不出去。天黑时，他 们看到一家旅店，便走了进去。仆人把乌鸦给店老板，让他烧好了当晚饭。可是，他们来到 的是家黑店，黑暗中店里来了十二个杀人犯，打算杀死这两位陌生人，抢劫他们的钱财。不 过在动手之前，他们一起坐了下来吃用乌鸦肉炖的汤，店老板和那老巫婆也加了进来。他们 刚喝了几口汤便全倒在地上死了，因为乌鸦把死马身上的毒汁传给了他们。旅店里现在只剩 下了店老板的女儿，这是一个诚实的姑娘，没有参加那些罪恶的勾当。她为这两位陌生人打 开了所有的门，让他们看里面存放的金银财宝。可是王子说那些东西现在全都属于她了，他 自己什么也不要，然后，他就带着仆人继续上路了。 他们又走了很久，来到了一座城市，这座城里住着一位非常美丽但又非常高傲的公主， 她遍告天下，谁要是能出一个她猜不出的谜语，她就嫁给谁；可她要是猜出来了，那个人就 要被砍掉脑袋。她有三天的时间思考，可她聪明极了，总能在规定的时间之前猜出来。在王 子到来之前，已经有九个人这样送掉了性命。但王子被她的美貌迷住了，愿意拿自己的性命 做赌注。他来到公主那里，给她出谜语：“什么东西不杀任何人，却杀死了十二个人？”她 不知道这是什么东西，想来想去怎么也猜不出。她查遍了各种谜语书，可里面就是没有，一 句话，她的智慧遇到了难题。她不知道该怎么办才好，便派她的女仆溜进王子的房间，偷听 他梦中说些什么，以为他或许在说梦话时会把谜底漏出来。但是王子那聪明的仆人却睡到了 主人的床上，女仆一溜进来他就扯掉了她的斗篷，用鞭子把她赶了出去。第二天夜里，公主 又派她的贴身女仆去碰碰运气，看她是否能打听出来，但王子的仆人也扯下了她的斗篷，用 鞭子把她赶了出去。第三天，王子觉得自己已经有了把握，便睡回到了自己的房间。这次公 主本人来了。她披了件雾一般的灰色斗篷，坐在王子的身边。她以为王子已经睡着，便跟他 说话，希望他像许多人一样在梦中说出谜底来。然而王子并没有睡着，心里清楚得很，把她 的一举一动全听在了耳朵里。她问：“什么东西不杀任何人？”他回答：“一只吃了被毒药 毒死、自己又被毒死的乌鸦。”她又问：“那什么杀了十二个人呢？”他回答：“十二个吃 了乌鸦的凶手也死了。” 公主得知了谜底后便想悄悄溜走，可王子紧紧扯住她的斗篷，逼得她只好把它留下。第 二天早晨，公主宣布说自己已经猜出了谜语，并且派人叫来十二个法官，当着他们的面说出 了谜底。然而王子请求大家听他说几句。他说：“她在夜里偷偷溜进我的房间，从我这里问 出了答案，否则她是不会知道谜底的。”法官们问：“拿出证据来。”王子的仆人拿来了三 条斗篷，法官们看到那条雾一般的斗篷正是公主常常披在身上的，便齐声说：“给这件斗篷 绣上金丝银线，它将成为你们的结婚礼服。” ------------------
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23 / The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage Once on a time a mouse, a bird, and a sausage became companions, kept house together, lived well and happily with each other, and wonderfully increased their possessions. The bird's work was to fly every day into the forest and bring back wood. The mouse had to carry water, light the fire, and lay the table, but the sausage had to cook. He who is too well off is always longing for something new. One day, therefore, the bird met with another bird, on the way, to whom it related its excellent circumstances and boasted of them. The other bird, however, called it a poor simpleton for his hard work, but said that the two at home had good times. For when the mouse had made her fire and carried her water, she went into her little room to rest until they called her to lay the table. The sausage stayed by the pot, saw that the food was cooking well, and, when it was nearly time for dinner, it rolled itself once or twice through the broth or vegetables and then they were buttered, salted, and ready. When the bird came home and laid his burden down, they sat down to dinner, and after they had had their meal, they slept their fill till next morning, and that was a splendid life. Next day the bird, prompted by the other bird, would go no more into the wood, saying that he had been servant long enough, and had been made a fool of by them, and that they must change about for once, and try to arrange it in another way. And, though the mouse and the sausage also begged most earnestly, the bird would have his way, and said it must be tried. They cast lots about it, and the lot fell on the sausage who was to carry wood, the mouse became cook, and the bird was to fetch water. What happened? The little sausage went out towards the wood, the little bird lighted the fire, the mouse stayed by the pot and waited alone until little sausage came home and brought wood for next day. But the little sausage stayed so long on the road that they both feared something was amiss, and the bird flew out a little way in the air to meet it. Not far off, however, it met a dog on the road who had fallen on the poor sausage as lawful booty, and had seized and swallowed it. The bird charged the dog with an act of barefaced robbery, but it was in vain to speak, for the dog said he had found forged letters on the sausage, on which account its life was forfeited to him. The bird sadly took up the wood, flew home, and related what he had seen and heard. They were much troubled, but agreed to do their best and remain together. The bird therefore laid the cloth, and the mouse made ready the food, and wanted to dress it, and to get into the pot as the sausage used to do, and roll and creep amongst the vegetables to mix them; but before she got into the midst of them she was stopped, and lost her skin and hair and life in the attempt. When the bird came to carry up the dinner, no cook was there. In its distress the bird threw the wood here and there, called and searched, but no cook was to be found! Owing to his carelessness the wood caught fire, so that a conflagration ensued, the bird hastened to fetch water, and then the bucket dropped from his claws into the well, and he fell down with it, and could not recover himself, but had to drown there.
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老鼠、小鸟和香肠 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 从前，有一只老鼠、一只小鸟和一根香肠住在一个家里，它们和睦相处，生活充满了幸 福和快乐。他们分工合作，积累不断增加，变得十分富裕。小鸟每天飞到森林里去衔柴回 来；老鼠担水，生火，布置饭桌；香肠则负责做饭。 一个人生活太顺畅，就会开始变赖，会想着法子玩新花样。有一天，小鸟遇到了另外一 个朋友，它向朋友很自豪谈起自己生活的惬意现状。那只鸟却嘲笑它是一个可怜的傻瓜，说 它辛辛苦苦在外面干活，另两个伙伴待在家里干轻松的活：老鼠每天生火、担水之后就回到 自己的房间里躺下休息，到了吃饭的时候才去摆好桌椅，铺上桌布。香肠则坐在锅子旁，除 了看食物烹煮的情况外，什么事都不做。到了要吃饭的时候，只加一点油、盐就算了事，不 到一分钟就干完了。小鸟听了这些话，心里很不是滋味。它飞回家，把柴担放在地上。大家 和平时一样一起坐在桌子边吃饭，进餐之后又都回房睡觉，一直睡到第二天早晨起来。 还有什么生活比这种默契、合理分工的生活更令人满意呢？ 可是小鸟受了朋友的挑拨，第二天不想到森林里去了，还说自己一直在服待它们两个， 做了很久的傻子，现在应该交换一下工作，家务事应该大家轮着来干。尽管老鼠和香肠苦苦 劝说，讲明它们这样分工最合理，这样才可能继续维持正常的生活。但小鸟听不进去，坚持 它的提议。最后，它俩只好顺着它。它们用抽签的方式决定了这样的分工：香肠去背柴，老 鼠做饭，小鸟去担水。 人要是离开了适合自己干的工作岗位时，会有什么结果呢？ 香肠出发到森林里去了，小鸟生起火，老鼠架好锅子，只等香肠回家担来第二天用的柴 枝。但香肠去了很久都没有回来，它俩意识到它一定出事了。小鸟马上飞出去沿着小路去找 香肠，但它飞了不远就发现路上有一条狗，狗说它遇到了可怜的小香肠，把它当作可以捕食 的猎物抓起来吃掉了。小鸟指责狗公开抢劫，行凶杀人。但一切话都已毫无用处，因为狗说 它发现香肠从事的工作与它的身份不符合，断定它是伪装的间谍，这样才把它杀死的。小鸟 非常伤心地衔起柴枝回到家里，把自己所看到和听到的都告诉了老鼠。他和老鼠都很悲痛， 但它们两个商定，最好还是住在一起。 小鸟把桌子铺好了，老鼠把菜也做好了，但当老鼠去盛菜时，热气一冲，它一子就掉进 了锅里，连淹带烫死去了。小鸟来到厨房想把饭菜端到桌子上去，可它没有看到厨师。它把 柴枝翻来翻去扔得到处都是，这里叫，那里喊，每个地方都寻遍了，就是找不到厨师。就在 这时，灶里的火掉到柴枝上，柴枝马上燃了起来。小鸟急忙去担水，但匆忙间又把木桶掉到 井里去了，它也跟着一起掉了下去。一个好端端的家庭就这样完了。 ------------------
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24 / Mother Holle There was once a widow who had two daughters -- one of whom was pretty and industrious, whilst the other was ugly and idle. But she was much fonder of the ugly and idle one, because she was her own daughter; and the other, who was a step-daughter, was obliged to do all the work, and be the Cinderella of the house. Every day the poor girl had to sit by a well, in the highway, and spin and spin till her fingers bled. Now it happened that one day the shuttle was marked with her blood, so she dipped it in the well, to wash the mark off; but it dropped out of her hand and fell to the bottom. She began to weep, and ran to her step-mother and told her of the mishap. But she scolded her sharply, and was so merciless as to say, "Since you have let the shuttle fall in, you must fetch it out again." So the girl went back to the well, and did not know what to do; and in the sorrow of her heart she jumped into the well to get the shuttle. She lost her senses; and when she awoke and came to herself again, she was in a lovely meadow where the sun was shining and many thousands of flowers were growing. Along this meadow she went, and at last came to a baker's oven full of bread, and the bread cried out, "Oh, take me out! take me out! or I shall burn; I have been baked a long time!" So she went up to it, and took out all the loaves one after another with the bread-shovel. After that she went on till she came to a tree covered with apples, which called out to her, "Oh, shake me! shake me! we apples are all ripe!" So she shook the tree till the apples fell like rain, and went on shaking till they were all down, and when she had gathered them into a heap, she went on her way. At last she came to a little house, out of which an old woman peeped; but she had such large teeth that the girl was frightened, and was about to run away. But the old woman called out to her, "What are you afraid of, dear child? Stay with me; if you will do all the work in the house properly, you shall be the better for it. Only you must take care to make my bed well, and shake it thoroughly till the feathers fly -- for then there is snow on the earth. I am Mother Holle. As the old woman spoke so kindly to her, the girl took courage and agreed to enter her service. She attended to everything to the satisfaction of her mistress, and always shook her bed so vigorously that the feathers flew about like snow-flakes. So she had a pleasant life with her; never an angry word; and boiled or roast meat every day. She stayed some time with Mother Holle, and then she became sad. At first she did not know what was the matter with her, but found at length that it was home-sickness: although she was many thousand times better off here than at home, still she had a longing to be there. At last she said to the old woman, "I have a longing for home; and however well off I am down here, I cannot stay any longer; I must go up again to my own people." Mother Holle said, "I am pleased that you long for your home again, and as you have served me so truly, I myself will take you up again." Thereupon she took her by the hand, and led her to a large door. The door was opened, and just as the maiden was standing beneath the doorway, a heavy shower of golden rain fell, and all the gold remained sticking to her, so that she was completely covered over with it. "You shall have that because you have been so industrious," said Mother Holle, and at the same time she gave her back the shuttle which she had let fall into the well. Thereupon the door closed, and the maiden found herself up above upon the earth, not far from her mother's house. And as she went into the yard the cock was standing by the well-side, and cried -- "Cock-a-doodle-doo! Your golden girl's come back to you!" So she went in to her mother, and as she arrived thus covered with gold, she was well received, both by her and her sister. The girl told all that had happened to her; and as soon as the mother heard how she had come by so much wealth, she was very anxious to obtain the same good luck for the ugly and lazy daughter. She had to seat herself by the well and spin; and in order that her shuttle might be stained with blood, she stuck her hand into a thorn bush and pricked her finger. Then she threw her shuttle into the well, and jumped in after it. She came, like the other, to the beautiful meadow and walked along the very same path. When she got to the oven the bread again cried, "Oh, take me out! take me out! or I shall burn; I have been baked a long time!" But the lazy thing answered, "As if I had any wish to make myself dirty?" and on she went. Soon she came to the apple-tree, which cried, "Oh, shake me! shake me! we apples are all ripe!" But she answered, "I like that! one of you might fall on my head," and so went on. When she came to Mother Holle's house she was not afraid, for she had already heard of her big teeth, and she hired herself to her immediately. The first day she forced herself to work diligently, and obeyed Mother Holle when she told her to do anything, for she was thinking of all the gold that she would give her. But on the second day she began to be lazy, and on the third day still more so, and then she would not get up in the morning at all. Neither did she make Mother Holle's bed as she ought, and did not shake it so as to make the feathers fly up. Mother Holle was soon tired of this, and gave her notice to leave. The lazy girl was willing enough to go, and thought that now the golden rain would come. Mother Holle led her also to the great door; but while she was standing beneath it, instead of the gold a big kettleful of pitch was emptied over her. "That is the reward for your service," said Mother Holle, and shut the door. So the lazy girl went home; but she was quite covered with pitch, and the cock by the well-side, as soon as he saw her, cried out -- "Cock-a-doodle-doo! Your pitchy girl's come back to you!" But the pitch stuck fast to her, and could not be got off as long as she lived.
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skymoontourbillion于2005-12-12写道:
正在建设中 匆插队
过来看看EV 嘿嘿
谢谢您了
这么突然过来我这里
吓死我了
Why posted some Green Fairtales in Salon?
Why not H.Andersons’ stories?
强顶,下次可不可以把字拉开些,偶看完了第一页,明天继续.谢谢楼主啦.
太长了， 看不完啊 
我最喜欢看童话了呵呵 
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霍勒大妈 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 从前，有一个寡妇，膝下有两个女儿，一个既漂亮又勤劳，而另一个则又丑又懒。寡妇 却格外疼爱又丑又懒的那一个，因为是她的亲生女儿；另一个呢，不得不什么活儿都干，成 了家里名副其实的灰姑娘。可怜的姑娘每天必须坐到大路旁的水井边纺线，不停地纺啊纺， 一直纺到手指磨破了血。 有一天，纺锤全让血给染红了，姑娘打算用井水把它洗干净，不料纺锤脱了手，掉进井 里。姑娘一路哭着跑到继母跟前，对她说了这件不幸的事。继母听了，把姑娘臭骂了一顿， 还威逼她说，除非她把纺锤从井里捞出来，不然就饶不了她。姑娘回到井边，不知如何是 好。后来，她害怕再遭继母的斥骂，就跳进了井里。在井里，她失去了知觉，等苏醒过来 时，发现自己躺在一片美丽的草地上，草地沐浴着灿烂的阳光，四周环绕着万紫千红的花 朵，各自争妍斗艳。她站起身来，向草地的前方走去，在一座烤炉旁停下了脚步，发现烤炉 里装满了面包。 面包对她说：“快把我取出来，快把我取出来，不然，我就要被烤焦啦。我在里面已经 被烤了很久很久啦。” 姑娘走上前去，拿起面包铲，把面包一个接一个地全取了出来。随后，她继续往前走， 来到一棵果实累累的苹果树下，果树冲她大喊大叫：“摇一摇我啊，摇一摇我啊，满树的苹 果全都熟透啦。” 于是，姑娘用力摇动果树，苹果雨点般纷纷落下，直到树上一个也不剩了，她才停下 来；接着她又把苹果一个个捡起来堆放在一起，然后又继续往前走。 最后，姑娘来到一幢小房子前，只见一个老太太在窗前望着她。老太太青面獠牙，姑娘 一见心惊胆战，打算赶快逃走。谁知老太太大声嚷嚷起来：“亲爱的，你干嘛害怕呢？就留 在我这儿吧！要是你愿意在这儿好好干家务活儿，我保你过得舒舒服服的。你千万要当心， 一定要整理好我的床铺，使劲儿抖我的床垫，要抖得羽绒四处飘飞，这样世界上就下雪了。 我是霍勒大妈。” 老太太说这番话时，和颜悦色，姑娘于是鼓起勇气，答应留下来替她做家务事。她尽力 做好每件事情，使老太太心满意足。抖床垫时，她使出全身力气，抖得羽绒像雪花儿似的四 处飘飞。因此，老太太对她也很好，使她生活得挺舒适，每天盘中有肉，要么是炖的，要么 是烧的。 就这样过了一段时间之后，姑娘渐渐变得忧心忡忡起来，一开始她自己也不明白是怎么 回事，后来终于明白了，原来是想家啦。在霍勒大妈家里的生活比起在继母家里的生活，真 是一个天上，一个地下，可尽管这样，她依然归心似箭。最后，她对霍勒大妈吐露了自己的 心事：“我现在很想家。在这下面，我事事称心如意，可我再也呆不下去了，我得回到上面 的亲人身边。” 霍勒大妈听后回答说：“你想回到家人身边，我听了很高兴。你在我这儿做事尽心尽 力，我很满意，那么我就亲自送你上去吧。” 说罢，霍勒大妈牵着姑娘的手，领着她来到一扇大门前。大门洞开，姑娘刚刚站到门 下，一粒粒的金子就像雨点般落在她身上，而且都牢牢地粘附在她衣服上，结果她浑身上下 全是金子。 “你一直很勤劳，这是你应得的回报。”霍勒大妈对她说，说着又把她掉进井里的纺锤 还给了她。 忽然，大门砰的一声就关上了，姑娘又回到了上面的世界，她就站在她继母家的附近。 她走进院子的时候，蹲在辘轳上的大公鸡咯咯地叫了起来： “咯……咯……咯……咯……， 咱们的金姑娘回来啰！” 她走进继母的房间，因为浑身上下粘满了金子，继母和妹妹亲热地接待了她。 姑娘跟他们讲述了自己惊心动魄的经历。继母听完了她获得这么多金子的过程，就打算 让她那个又丑又懒的女儿也享有这么多的金子，于是她把这个女儿打发到井边去纺线。为了 使纺锤染上血污，这个姑娘就把手伸进刺篱笆里，将自己的手指扎破。然后，她把纺锤投入 井里，自己也随即跳了进去。 在井里，她像姐姐一样，先是来到一片美丽的草地，然后顺着同一条小路往前走去。她 走到烤炉前时，面包冲着她大声叫喊：“快把我取出来，快把我取出来，不然我就要被烤焦 啦。”可这个懒惰的姑娘听了却回答说：“谢谢，我才不想弄脏我的手。”说完继续往前赶 路。 不大一会儿，她便来到苹果树下，果树跟上次一样喊叫着：“摇一摇我啊，摇一摇我 啊，满树的苹果全都熟透啦。” 她回答道：“当然可以呀，可苹果落下来会砸着我的脑袋。”说完继续赶路。 来到霍勒大妈的小房子前时，因为她听姐姐说过老太太青面獠牙，所以见了面一点儿也 不感到害怕。第一天，丑姑娘心里始终惦记着作为奖赏的金子，所以强打起精神，装成很勤 快的样子，而且事事都照着老太太的意愿来做。可到了第二天，她就懒起来了；第三天呢， 她懒得更加不像话，早上甚至赖在床上不想起来，连整理好霍勒大妈的床铺这件事也给忘记 了，更不用说抖床垫，抖得羽绒四处飘飞了。几天下来，老太太已经受够了，就预先告诉 她，她被解雇了。懒姑娘一听，满心欢喜，心里想道：“该下金雨啦！” 霍勒大妈领着她来到那扇大门前，可当她站到门下时，非但没有金子落下来，劈头盖脸 地泼了她一身的却是一大锅沥青。“这就是你应得的回报。”霍勒大妈对她说，说完便关上 了大门。 懒姑娘就这样回到了家里，浑身上下糊满了沥青。蹲在辘轳上的大公鸡看见了她就咯咯 地叫了起来： “咯……咯……咯……咯……， 咱们的脏姑娘回来啰！” 懒姑娘身上的沥青粘得很牢，无论怎样冲洗也无济于事，她只好就这样一辈子啦。 ------------------
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25 / The Seven Ravens There was once a man who had seven sons, and still he had no daughter, however much he wished for one. At length his wife again gave him hope of a child, and when it came into the world it was a girl. The joy was great, but the child was sickly and small, and had to be privately baptized on account of its weakness. The father sent one of the boys in haste to the spring to fetch water for the baptism. The other six went with him, and as each of them wanted to be first to fill it, the jug fell into the well. There they stood and did not know what to do, and none of them dared to go home. As they still did not return, the father grew impatient, and said, "They have certainly forgotten it for some game, the wicked boys!" He became afraid that the girl would have to die without being baptized, and in his anger cried, "I wish the boys were all turned into ravens." Hardly was the word spoken before he heard a whirring of wings over his head in the air, looked up and saw seven coal-black ravens flying away. The parents could not recall the curse, and however sad they were at the loss of their seven sons, they still to some extent comforted themselves with their dear little daughter, who soon grew strong and every day became more beautiful. For a long time she did not know that she had had brothers, for her parents were careful not to mention them before her, but one day she accidentally heard some people saying of herself, "that the girl was certainly beautiful, but that in reality she was to blame for the misfortune which had befallen her seven brothers." Then she was much troubled, and went to her father and mother and asked if it was true that she had had brothers, and what had become of them? The parents now dared keep the secret no longer, but said that what had befallen her brothers was the will of Heaven, and that her birth had only been the innocent cause. But the maiden took it to heart daily, and thought she must deliver her brothers. She had no rest or peace until she set out secretly, and went forth into the wide world to trace out her brothers and set them free, let it cost what it might. She took nothing with her but a little ring belonging to her parents as a keepsake, a loaf of bread against hunger, a little pitcher of water against thirst, and a little chair as a provision against weariness. And now she went continually onwards, far, far to the very end of the world. Then she came to the sun, but it was too hot and terrible, and devoured little children. Hastily she ran away, and ran to the moon, but it was far too cold, and also awful and malicious, and when it saw the child, it said, "I smell, I smell the flesh of men." On this she ran swiftly away, and came to the stars, which were kind and good to her, and each of them sat on its own particular little chair. But the morning star arose, and gave her the drumstick of a chicken, and said, "If you thou hast not that drumstick thou canst not open the Glass mountain, and in the Glass mountain are thy brothers." The maiden took the drumstick, wrapped it carefully in a cloth, and went onwards again until she came to the Glass mountain. The door was shut, and she thought she would take out the drumstick; but when she undid the cloth, it was empty, and she had lost the good star's present. What was she now to do? She wished to rescue her brothers, and had no key to the Glass mountain. The good sister took a knife, cut off one of her little fingers, put it in the door, and succeeded in opening it. When she had gone inside, a little dwarf came to meet her, who said, "My child, what are you looking for?" "I am looking for my brothers, the seven ravens," she replied. The dwarf said, "The lord ravens are not at home, but if you will wait here until they come, step in." Thereupon the little dwarf carried the ravens' dinner in, on seven little plates, and in seven little glasses, and the little sister ate a morsel from each plate, and from each little glass she took a sip, but in the last little glass she dropped the ring which she had brought away with her. Suddenly she heard a whirring of wings and a rushing through the air, and then the little dwarf said, "Now the lord ravens are flying home." Then they came, and wanted to eat and drink, and looked for their little plates and glasses. Then said one after the other, "Who has eaten something from my plate? Who has drunk out of my little glass? It was a human mouth." And when the seventh came to the bottom of the glass, the ring rolled against his mouth. Then he looked at it, and saw that it was a ring belonging to his father and mother, and said, "God grant that our sister may be here, and then we shall be free." When the maiden, who was standing behind the door watching, heard that wish, she came forth, and on this all the ravens were restored to their human form again. And they embraced and kissed each other, and went joyfully home.
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七只乌鸦 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 据传说，以前有一户人家，父母生了八个孩子，其中七个是儿子，最小的一个是女儿。 这个女儿生下来以后，尽管非常漂亮可爱，但她太纤弱太瘦小，他们认为她可能活不下来， 决定马上给她施行洗礼。 父亲派了一个儿子要他赶快到井里去打点水来，其他六个一看，也一窝蜂似地跟了去， 每一个都争先恐后地要第一个汲水，你争我夺之中，他们把大水罐给掉到井里去了。这一 下，他们可就傻眼了，你看看我，我看看你，痴呆呆地站在井边不知如何是好，都不敢回屋 里去。此时，父亲正心急火燎的地等着他们把水提来，见他们去了很久还没有回来，就说 道：“他们一定是闹着玩把这事给忘了。”他左等右等仍不见他们回来，气得大骂起来，说 他们都该变成乌鸦。话音刚落就听见头上一阵呱呱的叫声传来，他抬头一看，发现有七只煤 炭一样的黑色乌鸦正在上面盘旋着。看到自己的气话变成了现实，他后悔了，不知道该怎么 办才好。他失去了七个儿子，心里非常悲伤，好在小女儿在接受洗礼之后一天比一天强壮起 来，而且越长越漂亮了，总算对他这个父亲有了一点安慰。 女儿慢慢长大了，她一直不知道自己曾经有过七个哥哥，爸爸和妈妈都很小心，从来不 在她面前提起。终于有一天，她偶然听到人们谈起有关她的事情，他们说：“她的的确确很 漂亮，但可惜的是她的七个哥哥却因为她的缘故而遭到不幸。”她听到这些后非常伤心，就 去问自己的父母她是不是有哥哥，他们到底怎么样了。父母亲不好再对她隐瞒事情的真象。 为了安慰她，他们说这一切都是上帝的意愿，她的出生降临都是上帝的安排，她是无罪的。 但小姑娘仍然为此吃不下饭，睡不好觉，天天伤痛不已，她暗下决心，一定要想方设法把自 己的七个哥哥找回来。有一天，她从家里偷偷地跑了出去，来到外面广阔的世界，到处寻访 自己的哥哥。她想：无论他们到了什么地方，她不惜自己的生命，也要让他们恢复本来面 目，获得做人的自由！ 出门的时候，她只带了爸爸妈妈以前送给她的一只小戒指，加上一块用来充饥的长条面 包和一壶用来解渴的水，一张疲倦时用来休息的小凳子。她走啊，找啊，不停地寻访着，一 直找到遥远的天边，来到太阳面前。但太阳太热太凶猛了，她急忙跑开，又来到月亮面前。 可月亮又太寒冷太冷酷，还说道：“我闻到人肉和血腥味了！”她赶紧又跑到了星星那里。 星星对她很友好，很和气，每颗星都坐在他们自己的小凳子上。当启明星站起来往上飞时， 他给了小姑娘一片小木块，说道：“如果你没有这片小木块，就不能打开玻璃山上那座城堡 的门。你的哥哥正是住在那座城堡里。”小妹妹接过小木块，把它用布包好，告别星星，起 程又继续寻找她的哥哥去了。 经过艰苦跋涉，她终于找到了玻璃山。来到城门前一看，门是锁着的，她拿出布包解 开，发现里面的小木块不见了，不知是什么时候自己把好心的启明星送的礼物失落了。怎么 办呢？她要救哥哥，可又没有了玻璃山城堡的钥匙。这位坚定忠实的小妹妹一咬牙，从口袋 里掏出一把小刀把自己的小指头切了下来，那指头的大小正好和失落的木块相同，她将指头 插进门上的锁孔，门被打开了。 她走进城堡，迎面遇到了一个小矮人，他问道：“你来找什么呀？”小妹妹回答说： “我来找那七只乌鸦，他们是我的哥哥。”小矮人说道：“我的主人不在家，如果你非要等 他们回来的话，就请进来吧。”这时，小矮人正在为乌鸦们准备晚餐，他在桌子上摆了七个 盘子，在盘子里放好食物，又端来七杯水放在盘子旁边。小妹妹把每个盘子里的东西都吃了 一小块，把每个小杯子里的水也喝了一小口，又将她随身带来的小戒指放进了最后一只杯子 中。 忽然，她听到空中传来了翅膀拍击的声音和呱呱的叫声，小矮人马上说道：“我的主人 们回来了。”她连忙躲到门后面，想听听他们会说些什么。七只乌鸦一进来，就急于找自己 的盘子和杯子想要吃东西喝水，他们一个接一个的叫道：“谁吃了我盘子里的东西？谁把我 杯子里的水喝了一点点？ 呱呱呱！呱呱呱！ 我知道了呀， 这一定是人的嘴巴。” 第七只乌鸦喝完水，发现杯子里有一只戒指，他仔细一瞧，认出了这是他们父母亲的东 西，就说道：“嗳！我们的小妹妹来了！我们就会得救了。”小妹妹听到这里，马上跑了出 来。她一露面，七只乌鸦立即都恢复了他们的人形。他们互相紧紧拥抱，亲吻，一起高高兴 兴地回到了他们的爸爸妈妈的身边。 ------------------
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26 / Little Red-Cap Once upon a time there was a dear little girl who was loved by every one who looked at her, but most of all by her grandmother, and there was nothing that she would not have given to the child. Once she gave her a little cap of red velvet, which suited her so well that she would never wear anything else; so she was always called "Little Red-Cap." One day her mother said to her, "Come, Little Red-Cap, here is a piece of cake and a bottle of wine; take them to your grandmother, she is ill and weak, and they will do her good. Set out before it gets hot, and when you are going, walk nicely and quietly and do not run off the path, or you may fall and break the bottle, and then your grandmother will get nothing; and when you go into her room, don't forget to say, 'Good-morning,' and don't peep into every corner before you do it." "I will take great care," said Little Red-Cap to her mother, and gave her hand on it. The grandmother lived out in the wood, half a league from the village, and just as Little Red-Cap entered the wood, a wolf met her. Red-Cap did not know what a wicked creature he was, and was not at all afraid of him. "Good-day, Little Red-Cap," said he. "Thank you kindly, wolf." "Whither away so early, Little Red-Cap?" "To my grandmother's." "What have you got in your apron?" "Cake and wine; yesterday was baking-day, so poor sick grandmother is to have something good, to make her stronger." "Where does your grandmother live, Little Red-Cap?" "A good quarter of a league farther on in the wood; her house stands under the three large oak-trees, the nut-trees are just below; you surely must know it," replied Little Red-Cap. The wolf thought to himself, "What a tender young creature! what a nice plump mouthful -- she will be better to eat than the old woman. I must act craftily, so as to catch both." So he walked for a short time by the side of Little Red-Cap, and then he said, "See Little Red-Cap, how pretty the flowers are about here -- why do you not look round? I believe, too, that you do not hear how sweetly the little birds are singing; you walk gravely along as if you were going to school, while everything else out here in the wood is merry." Little Red-Cap raised her eyes, and when she saw the sunbeams dancing here and there through the trees, and pretty flowers growing everywhere, she thought, "Suppose I take grandmother a fresh nosegay; that would please her too. It is so early in the day that I shall still get there in good time;" and so she ran from the path into the wood to look for flowers. And whenever she had picked one, she fancied that she saw a still prettier one farther on, and ran after it, and so got deeper and deeper into the wood. Meanwhile the wolf ran straight to the grandmother's house and knocked at the door. "Who is there?" "Little Red-Cap," replied the wolf. "She is bringing cake and wine; open the door." "Lift the latch," called out the grandmother, "I am too weak, and cannot get up." The wolf lifted the latch, the door flew open, and without saying a word he went straight to the grandmother's bed, and devoured her. Then he put on her clothes, dressed himself in her cap, laid himself in bed and drew the curtains. Little Red-Cap, however, had been running about picking flowers, and when she had gathered so many that she could carry no more, she remembered her grandmother, and set out on the way to her. She was surprised to find the cottage-door standing open, and when she went into the room, she had such a strange feeling that she said to herself, "Oh dear! how uneasy I feel to-day, and at other times I like being with grandmother so much." She called out, "Good morning," but received no answer; so she went to the bed and drew back the curtains. There lay her grandmother with her cap pulled far over her face, and looking very strange. "Oh! grandmother," she said, "what big ears you have!" "The better to hear you with, my child," was the reply. "But, grandmother, what big eyes you have!" she said. "The better to see you with, my dear." "But, grandmother, what large hands you have!" "The better to hug you with." "Oh! but, grandmother, what a terrible big mouth you have!" "The better to eat you with!" And scarcely had the wolf said this, than with one bound he was out of bed and swallowed up Red-Cap. When the wolf had appeased his appetite, he lay down again in the bed, fell asleep and began to snore very loud. The huntsman was just passing the house, and thought to himself, "How the old woman is snoring! I must just see if she wants anything." So he went into the room, and when he came to the bed, he saw that the wolf was lying in it. "Do I find thee here, thou old sinner!" said he. "I have long sought thee!" Then just as he was going to fire at him, it occurred to him that the wolf might have devoured the grandmother, and that she might still be saved, so he did not fire, but took a pair of scissors, and began to cut open the stomach of the sleeping wolf. When he had made two snips, he saw the little Red-Cap shining, and then he made two snips more, and the little girl sprang out, crying, "Ah, how frightened I have been! How dark it was inside the wolf;" and after that the aged grandmother came out alive also, but scarcely able to breathe. Red-Cap, however, quickly fetched great stones with which they filled the wolf's body, and when he awoke, he wanted to run away, but the stones were so heavy that he fell down at once, and fell dead. Then all three were delighted. The huntsman drew off the wolf's skin and went home with it; the grandmother ate the cake and drank the wine which Red-Cap had brought, and revived, but Red-Cap thought to herself, "As long as I live, I will never by myself leave the path, to run into the wood, when my mother has forbidden me to do so." * It is also related that once when Red-Cap was again taking cakes to the old grandmother, another wolf spoke to her, and tried to entice her from the path. Red-Cap, however, was on her guard, and went straight forward on her way, and told her grandmother that she had met the wolf, and that he had said "good-morning" to her, but with such a wicked look in his eyes, that if they had not been on the public road she was certain he would have eaten her up. "Well," said the grandmother, "we will shut the door, that he may not come in." Soon afterwards the wolf knocked, and cried, "Open the door, grandmother, I am little Red-Cap, and am fetching you some cakes." But they did not speak, or open the door, so the grey-beard stole twice or thrice round the house, and at last jumped on the roof, intending to wait until Red-Cap went home in the evening, and then to steal after her and devour her in the darkness. But the grandmother saw what was in his thoughts. In front of the house was a great stone trough, so she said to the child, "Take the pail, Red-Cap; I made some sausages yesterday, so carry the water in which I boiled them to the trough." Red-Cap carried until the great trough was quite full. Then the smell of the sausages reached the wolf, and he sniffed and peeped down, and at last stretched out his neck so far that he could no longer keep his footing and began to slip, and slipped down from the roof straight into the great trough, and was drowned. But Red-Cap went joyously home, and never did anything to harm any one.
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小红帽 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 从前有个可爱的小姑娘，谁见了都喜欢，但最喜欢她的是她的奶奶，简直是她要什么就 给她什么。一次，奶奶送给小姑娘一顶用丝绒做的小红帽，戴在她的头上正好合适。从此， 姑娘再也不愿意戴任何别的帽子，于是大家便叫她“小红帽”。 一天，妈妈对小红帽说：“来，小红帽，这里有一块蛋糕和一瓶葡萄酒，快给奶奶送 去，奶奶生病了，身子很虚弱，吃了这些就会好一些的。趁着现在天还没有热，赶紧动身 吧。在路上要好好走，不要跑，也不要离开大路，否则你会摔跤的，那样奶奶就什么也吃不 上了。到奶奶家的时候，别忘了说‘早上好’，也不要一进屋就东瞧西瞅。” “我会小心的。”小红帽对妈妈说，并且还和妈妈拉手作保证。 奶奶住在村子外面的森林里，离小红帽家有很长一段路。小红帽刚走进森林就碰到了一 条狼。小红帽不知道狼是坏家伙，所以一点也不怕它。 “你好，小红帽，”狼说。 “谢谢你，狼先生。” “小红帽，这么早要到哪里去呀？” “我要到奶奶家去。” “你那围裙下面有什么呀？” “蛋糕和葡萄酒。昨天我们家烤了一些蛋糕，可怜的奶奶生了病，要吃一些好东西才能 恢复过来。” “你奶奶住在哪里呀，小红帽？” “进了林子还有一段路呢。她的房子就在三棵大橡树下，低处围着核桃树篱笆。你一定 知道的。”小红帽说。 狼在心中盘算着：“这小东西细皮嫩肉的，味道肯定比那老太婆要好。我要讲究一下策 略，让她俩都逃不出我的手心。”于是它陪着小红帽走了一会儿，然后说：“小红帽，你看 周围这些花多么美丽啊！干吗不回头看一看呢？还有这些小鸟，它们唱得多么动听啊！你大 概根本没有听到吧？林子里的一切多么美好啊，而你却只管往前走，就像是去上学一样。” 小红帽抬起头来，看到阳光在树木间来回跳荡，美丽的鲜花在四周开放，便想：“也许 我该摘一把鲜花给奶奶，让她高兴高兴。现在天色还早，我不会去迟的。”她于是离开大 路，走进林子去采花。她每采下一朵花，总觉得前面还有更美丽的花朵，便又向前走去，结 果一直走到了林子深处。 就在此时，狼却直接跑到奶奶家，敲了敲门。 “是谁呀？” “是小红帽。”狼回答，“我给你送蛋糕和葡萄酒来了。快开门哪。” “你拉一下门栓就行了，”奶奶大声说，“我身上没有力气，起不来。” 狼刚拉起门栓，那门就开了。狼二话没说就冲到奶奶的床前，把奶奶吞进了肚子。然后 她穿上奶奶的衣服，戴上她的帽子，躺在床上，还拉上了帘子。 可这时小红帽还在跑来跑去地采花。直到采了许多许多，她都拿不了啦，她才想起奶 奶，重新上路去奶奶家。 看到奶奶家的屋门敞开着，她感到很奇怪。她一走进屋子就有一种异样的感觉，心中便 想：“天哪！平常我那么喜欢来奶奶家，今天怎么这样害怕？”她大声叫道：“早上 好！”，可是没有听到回答。她走到床前拉开帘子，只见奶奶躺在床上，帽子拉得低低的， 把脸都遮住了，样子非常奇怪。 “哎，奶奶，”她说，“你的耳朵怎么这样大呀？” “为了更好地听你说话呀，乖乖。” “可是奶奶，你的眼睛怎么这样大呀？”小红帽又问。 “为了更清楚地看你呀，乖乖。” “奶奶，你的手怎么这样大呀？” “可以更好地抱着你呀。” “奶奶，你的嘴巴怎么大得很吓人呀？” “可以一口把你吃掉呀！” 狼刚把话说完，就从床上跳起来，把小红帽吞进了肚子，狼满足了食欲之后便重新躺到 床上睡觉，而且鼾声震天。一位猎人碰巧从屋前走过，心想：“这老太太鼾打得好响啊！我 要进去看看她是不是出什么事了。”猎人进了屋，来到床前时却发现躺在那里的竟是狼。 “你这老坏蛋，我找了你这么久，真没想到在这里找到你！”他说。他正准备向狼开枪，突 然又想到，这狼很可能把奶奶吞进了肚子，奶奶也许还活着。猎人就没有开枪，而是操起一 把剪刀，动手把呼呼大睡的狼的肚子剪了开来。他刚剪了两下，就看到了红色的小帽子。他 又剪了两下，小姑娘便跳了出来，叫道：“真把我吓坏了！狼肚子里黑漆漆的。”接着，奶 奶也活着出来了，只是有点喘不过气来。小红帽赶紧跑去搬来几块大石头，塞进狼的肚子。 狼醒来之后想逃走，可是那些石头太重了，它刚站起来就跌到在地，摔死了。 三个人高兴极了。猎人剥下狼皮，回家去了；奶奶吃了小红帽带来的蛋糕和葡萄酒，精 神好多了；而小红帽却在想：“要是妈妈不允许，我一辈子也不独自离开大路，跑进森林 了。” 人们还说，小红帽后来又有一次把蛋糕送给奶奶，而且在路上又有一只狼跟她搭话，想 骗她离开大路。可小红帽这次提高了警惕，头也不回地向前走。她告诉奶奶她碰到了狼，那 家伙嘴上虽然对她说“你好”，眼睛里却露着凶光，要不是在大路上，它准把她给吃了。 “那么，”奶奶说，“我们把门关紧，不让它进来。”不一会儿，狼真的一面敲着门一面叫 道：“奶奶，快开门呀。我是小红帽，给你送蛋糕来了。”但是她们既不说话，也不开门。 这长着灰毛的家伙围着房子转了两三圈，最后跳上屋顶，打算等小红帽在傍晚回家时偷偷跟 在她的后面，趁天黑把她吃掉。可奶奶看穿了这家伙的坏心思。她想起屋子前有一个大石头 槽子，便对小姑娘说：“小红帽，把桶拿来。我昨天做了一些香肠，提些煮香肠的水去倒进 石头槽里。”小红帽提了很多很多水，把那个大石头槽子装得满满的。香肠的气味飘进了狼 的鼻孔，它使劲地用鼻子闻呀闻，并且朝下张望着，到最后把脖子伸得太长了，身子开始往 下滑。它从屋顶上滑了下来，正好落在大石槽中，淹死了。小红帽高高兴兴地回了家，从此 再也没有谁伤害过她。 ------------------
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28 / The Singing Bone In a certain country there was once great lamentation over a wild boar that laid waste the farmer's fields, killed the cattle, and ripped up people's bodies with his tusks. The King promised a large reward to anyone who would free the land from this plague; but the beast was so big and strong that no one dared to go near the forest in which it lived. At last the King gave notice that whosoever should capture or kill the wild boar should have his only daughter to wife. Now there lived in the country two brothers, sons of a poor man, who declared themselves willing to undertake the hazardous enterprise; the elder, who was crafty and shrewd, out of pride; the younger, who was innocent and simple, from a kind heart. The King said, "In order that you may be the more sure of finding the beast, you must go into the forest from opposite sides." So the elder went in on the west side, and the younger on the east. When the younger had gone a short way, a little man stepped up to him. He held in his hand a black spear and said, "I give you this spear because your heart is pure and good; with this you can boldly attack the wild boar, and it will do you no harm." He thanked the little man, shouldered the spear, and went on fearlessly. Before long he saw the beast, which rushed at him; but he held the spear towards it, and in its blind fury it ran so swiftly against it that its heart was cloven in twain. Then he took the monster on his back and went homewards with it to the King. As he came out at the other side of the wood, there stood at the entrance a house where people were making merry with wine and dancing. His elder brother had gone in here, and, thinking that after all the boar would not run away from him, was going to drink until he felt brave. But when he saw his young brother coming out of the wood laden with his booty, his envious, evil heart gave him no peace. He called out to him, "Come in, dear brother, rest and refresh yourself with a cup of wine." The youth, who suspected no evil, went in and told him about the good little man who had given him the spear wherewith he had slain the boar. The elder brother kept him there until the evening, and then they went away together, and when in the darkness they came to a bridge over a brook, the elder brother let the other go first; and when he was half-way across he gave him such a blow from behind that he fell down dead. He buried him beneath the bridge, took the boar, and carried it to the King, pretending that he had killed it; whereupon he obtained the King's daughter in marriage. And when his younger brother did not come back he said, "The boar must have killed him," and every one believed it. But as nothing remains hidden from God, so this black deed also was to come to light. Years afterwards a shepherd was driving his herd across the bridge, and saw lying in the sand beneath, a snow-white little bone. He thought that it would make a good mouth-piece, so he clambered down, picked it up, and cut out of it a mouth-piece for his horn. But when he blew through it for the first time, to his great astonishment, the bone began of its own accord to sing: "Ah, friend, thou blowest upon my bone! Long have I lain beside the water; My brother slew me for the boar, And took for his wife the King's young daughter." "What a wonderful horn!" said the shepherd; "it sings by itself; I must take it to my lord the King." And when he came with it to the King the horn again began to sing its little song. The King understood it all, and caused the ground below the bridge to be dug up, and then the whole skeleton of the murdered man came to light. The wicked brother could not deny the deed, and was sewn up in a sack and drowned. But the bones of the murdered man were laid to rest in a beautiful tomb in the churchyard.
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