Grimms' fairy tales: Children's and Household Tales
List of fairy tales (Page 8)
141 The lambkin and the little fish
There were once a little brother and a little sister, who loved each other with all their hearts. Their own mother was, however, dead, and they had a stepmother, who was not kind to them, and secretly did everything she could to hurt them. It so happened that the two were playing with other children in a meadow before the house, and there was a pond in the meadow which came up to one side of the house. The children ran about it, and caught each other, and played at counting out. Eneke Beneke, leRead the story → 142 Simeli mountain
There were once two brothers, the one rich, the other poor. The rich one, however, gave nothing to the poor one, and he gained a scanty living by trading in corn, and often did so badly that he had no bread for his wife and children. Once when he was wheeling a barrow through the forest he saw, on one side of him, a great, bare, naked-looking mountain, and as he had never seen it before, he stood still and stared at it with amazement. While he was thus standing he saw a twelve great, wild men coRead the story → 143 Going a-travelling
There was once a poor woman who had a son, who much wished to travel, but his mother said, How canst thou travel? We have no money at all for thee to take away with thee. Then said the son, I will manage very well for myself; I will always say, 'Not much, not much, not much.' So he walked for a long time and always said, Not much, not much, not much. Then he passed by a company of fishermen and said, God speed you! not much, not much, not much. - What sayst thou churl, not much? And when the netRead the story → 144 The donkey
Once on a time there lived a King and a Queen, who were rich, and had everything they wanted, but no children. The Queen lamented over this day and night, and said, I am like a field on which nothing grows. At last God gave her her wish, but when the child came into the world, it did not look like a human child, but was a little donkey. When the mother saw that, her lamentations and outcries began in real earnest; she said she would far rather have had no child at all than have a donkey, and thaRead the story →
146 The turnip
There were once two brothers who both served as soldiers; one of them was rich, and the other poor. Then the poor one, to escape from his poverty, put off his soldier's coat, and turned farmer. He dug and hoed his bit of land, and sowed it with turnip-seed. The seed came up, and one turnip grew there which became large and vigorous, and visibly grew bigger and bigger, and seemed as if it would never stop growing, so that it might have been called the princess of turnips, for never was such an onRead the story → 147 The old man made young again
In the time when our Lord still walked this earth, he and St. Peter stopped one evening at a smith's and received free quarters. Then it came to pass that a poor beggar, hardly pressed by age and infirmity, came to this house and begged alms of the smith. St. Peter had compassion on him and said, Lord and master, if it please thee, cure his torments that he may be able to win his own bread. The Lord said kindly, Smith, lend me thy forge, and put on some coals for me, and then I will make this aiRead the story → 150 The old beggar-woman
There was once an old woman, but thou hast surely seen an old woman go a-begging before now? This woman begged likewise, and when she got anything she said, May God reward you. The beggar- woman came to a door, and there by the fire a friendly rogue of a boy was standing warming himself. The boy said kindly to the poor old woman as she was standing shivering thus by the door, Come, old mother, and warm yourself. She came in, but stood too near the fire, so that her old rags began to burn, and shRead the story → 151 The three sluggards
A certain King had three sons who were all equally dear to him, and he did not know which of them to appoint as his successor after his own death. When the time came when he was about to die, he summoned them to his bedside and said, Dear children, I have been thinking of something which I will declare unto you; whichsoever of you is the laziest shall have the kingdom. The eldest said, Then, father, the kingdom is mine, for I am so idle that if I lie down to rest, and a drop falls in my eye, I wRead the story → 155 Brides on their trial
There was once a young shepherd who wished much to marry, and was acquainted with three sisters who were all equally pretty, so that it was difficult to him to make a choice, and he could not decide to give the preference to any one of them. Then he asked his mother for advice, and she said, Invite all three, and set some cheese before them, and watch how they eat it. The youth did so; the first, however, swallowed the cheese with the rind on; the second hastily cut the rind off the cheese, butRead the story → 
