日期：2013-07-30 A poor servant-girl was once travelling with the family with which she was in service, through a great forest, and when they were in the midst of it, robbers came out of the thicket, and murdered all they found. All perished together except the girl... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-30 In a certain village there once lived a man and his wife, and the wife was so idle that she would never work at anything; whatever her husband gave her to spin, she did not get done, and what she did spin she did not wind, but let it all remain enta... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-30 East India was besieged（包围） by an enemy who would not retire until he had received six hundred dollars. Then the townsfolk（市民） caused it to be proclaimed by beat of drum that whosoever was able to procure the money should be burgomaster（市... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-30 Between Werrel and Soist there lived a man whose name was Knoist, and he had three sons. One was blind, the other lame, and the third stark-naked（一丝不挂的） . Once on a time they went into a field, and there they saw a hare. The blind one shot it... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-30 A girl from Brakel once went to St. Anne's Chapel at the foot of the Hinnenberg, and as she wanted to have a husband, and thought there was no one else in the chapel, she sang, Oh, holy Saint Anne! Help me soon to a man. Thou know'st him right well,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-30 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（吝啬的） living by trading in corn, and often did so badly that he had no bread for his wife and children. Once... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-30 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... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-17 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 th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-17 A man and his wife were once sitting by the door of their house, and they had a roasted chicken set before them, and were about to eat it together. Then the man saw that his aged father was coming, and hastily took the chicken and hid it, for he wou... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-17 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 turn... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-17 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（住处） . Then it came to pass that a poor beggar, hardly pressed by age and infirmity（虚弱，疾病） , came to this house... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-17 The Lord God had created all animals, and had chosen out the wolf to be his dog, but he had forgotten the goat. Then the Devil made ready and began to create also, and created goats with fine long tails. Now when they went to pasture, they generally... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-12 Twelve servants who had done nothing all the day would not exert themselves at night either, but laid themselves on the grass and boasted of their idleness（懒惰） . The first said, What is your laziness to me, I have to concern myself about mine ow... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-12 In the time of Schlauraffen I went there, and saw Rome and the Lateran hanging by a small silken thread, and a man without feet who outran a swift horse, and a keen sharp sword that cut through a bridge. There I saw a young ass with a silver nose wh... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-11 He was watching TV. It was about 10:45 p.m. All of a sudden, he felt something in his chest. It was a fullness that he had never felt before. The feeling was dull and painless. But it quickly became a very strong chest ache. His chest felt full, sor... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-11 They're going to kick me out of my own home, said Karl Berger, 86 years old. Karl is a widower with no living children. When Karl's wife died a couple of years ago, he told the Social Security Administration to stop sending monthly checks to his wif... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-06-27 When Ruth Hagan was 78 years old, she visited her daughter Judy and teenage granddaughter Marcy in California. They headed for their cabin, zigzagging forty miles up and down the mountains in their Bronco, from pavement to gravel（砂石，沙砾） to a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-06-24 When I was young, I went looking for gold in California. I never found enough to make me rich. But I did discover a beautiful part of the country. It was called the Stanislau. The Stanislau was like Heaven on Earth. It had bright green hills and dee... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-06-08 Lean Lisa was of a very different way of thinking from lazy Harry and fat Trina, who never let anything disturb their peace. She scoured everything with ashes, from morning till evening, and burdened her husband, Long Laurence, with so much work tha... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-06-08 A poor wood-cutter lived with his wife and three daughters in a little hut on the edge of a lonely forest. One morning as he was about to go to his work, he said to his wife, Let my dinner be brought into the forest to me by my eldest daughter, or I... 阅读全文>>