日期：2013-09-04 There was once a poor woodcutter（樵夫） who toiled from early morning till late night. When at last he had laid by some money he said to his boy, You are my only child, I will spend the money which I have earned with the sweat of my brow on your ed... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-04 A disbanded soldier had nothing to live on, and did not know how to get on. So he went out into the forest and when he had walked for a short time, he met a little man who was, however, the Devil. The little man said to him, What ails you, you seem... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-08-19 There was once a young fellow who enlisted as a soldier, conducted himself bravely, and was always the foremost（最先的） when it rained bullets. So long as the war lasted, all went well, but when peace was made, he received his dismissal, and the c... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-08-19 One day a peasant took his good hazel-stick out of the corner and said to his wife, Trina, I am going across country, and shall not return for three days. If during that time the cattle-dealer should happen to call and want to buy our three cows, yo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-08-19 There was once a little child whose mother gave her every afternoon a small bowl of milk and bread, and the child seated herself in the yard with it. When she began to eat however, a snake came creeping out of a crevice（裂缝） in the wall, dipped i... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-08-19 In a certain mill lived an old miller who had neither wife nor child, and three apprentices served under him. As they had been with him several years, he one day said to them, I am old, and want to sit in the chimney-corner, go out, and whichsoever... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-08-19 Hill and vale do not come together, but the children of men do, good and bad. In this way a shoemaker and a tailor once met with each other in their travels. The tailor was a handsome little fellow who was always merry and full of enjoyment. He saw... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-08-19 There was once a countryman who had money and land in plenty, but how rich soever he was, one thing was still wanting in his happiness he had no children. Often when he went into the town with the other peasants they mocked him and asked why he had... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-08-19 There was once a mother who had a little boy of seven years old, who was so handsome and lovable that no one could look at him without liking him, and she herself worshipped him above everything in the world. Now it so happened that he suddenly beca... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-08-08 There was once a rich man, who had a servant who served him diligently and honestly: He was every morning the first out of bed, and the last to go to rest at night; and, whenever there was a difficult job to be done, which nobody cared to undertake,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-08-08 A countryman was once going out to plough with a pair of oxen. When he got to the field, both the animals' horns began to grow, and went on growing, and when he wanted to go home they were so big that the oxen could not get through the gateway for t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-08-08 There was once on a time a King who had a little boy of whom it had been foretold that he should be killed by a stag when he was sixteen years of age, and when he had reached that age the huntsmen once went hunting with him. In the forest, the King'... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-08-08 There was once on a time a princess who was extremely proud. If a wooer（求爱者） came she gave him some riddle to guess, and if he could not find it out, he was sent contemptuously（轻蔑地） away. She let it be made known also that whosoever solved... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-08-08 A tailor's apprentice（学徒，生手） was travelling about the world in search of work, and at one time he could find none, and his poverty was so great that he had not a farthing to live on. Presently he met a Jew on the road, and as he thought he wo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-08-08 There was once on a time a soldier who for many years had served the King faithfully, but when the war came to an end could serve no longer because of the many wounds which he had received. The King said to him, Thou mayst return to thy home, I need... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-08-08 Once upon a time there was a child who was willful, and would not dowh at her mother wished. For this reason God had no pleasure in her, and let her become ill, and no doctor could do her any good, and in a short time she lay on her death-bed. When... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-08-08 Three army-surgeons who thought they knew their art perfectly, were travelling about the world, and they came to an inn where they wanted to pass the night. The host asked whence they came, and whither they were going? We are roaming about the world... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-08-07 There were once three apprentices, who had agreed to keep always together while travelling, and always to work in the same town. At one time, however, their masters had no more work to give them, so that at last they were in rags, and had nothing to... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-08-07 There was once a young huntsman who went into the forest to lie in wait. He had a fresh and joyous heart, and as he was going thither, whistling upon a leaf, an ugly old crone came up, who spoke to him and said, Good-day, dear huntsman, truly you ar... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-08-07 There was once a King's son, who was no longer content to stay at home in his father's house, and as he had no fear of anything, he thought, I will go forth into the wide world, there the time will not seem long to me, and I shall see wonders enough... 阅读全文>>