小学英语格林童话系列(三)theThreeLittleMenintheWoods森
林中的三个小矮人(二)阅读素材
She replied, \others?\
When she was finished eating they said, \is a broom for you. Sweep in front of the back door.\
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Seeing that they were not going to give her anything, she walked out the door.
then the little men said to one another, \impolite and having a wicked and envious heart that will never let her give a thing to anyone?\
the first one said, \
the second one said, \grant that a toad shall jump out of her mouth with every word she says.\
the third one said, \
the girl looked outside for strawberries, but finding none, she went home angrily. And when she opened her mouth to tell her mother what had happened to her in the woods, a toad jumped out of her mouth with every word she said, so that everyone was repulsed by her.
the stepmother now became even more angry, and she could think of nothing else
but how she could torment the man's daughter, who nonetheless GREw more beautiful every day. Finally she took a kettle, set it on the fire, and boiled yarn in it. When it was boiled, she hung it on the poor girl's shoulder, gave her an ax, and told her to go to the frozen river, chop a hole in the ice, and rinse the yarn. She obeyed, went to the river and chopped a hole in the ice. While she was chopping, a splendid carriage approached, with the king seated inside.
the carriage stopped, and the king asked, \you doing here?\
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the king felt compassion, and when he saw how very beautiful she was, he said to her, \
\she answered, for she was happy to get away from the mother and sister.
So she got into the carriage and rode away with the king. When they arrived at his palace their wedding was celebrated with GREat pomp, just as the little men had promised the girl.
A year later the young queen gave birth to a son, and when the stepmother heard of her good fortune, she came with her daughter to the palace, pretending that she wanted to pay her a visit. But when the king went out, and no one else was present, the wicked woman seized the queen by the head, and her daughter seized her by the feet, and lifting her out of her bed, they threw her out the window into the stream that flowed by.
After that the ugly daughter lay down in the bed, and the old woman covered her up over her head. When the king returned and wanted to speak to his wife, the old
woman said, \You must let her rest today.\
the king suspected no evil, and did not return until the next morning. As he then talked with his wife, and she answered him, a toad jumped out with every word, whereas previously a piece of gold had fallen out. When he asked what was the matter, the old woman said that it came from her high fever, and that she would soon lose it.
During the night the kitchen boy saw a duck swimming along the gutter, and it said, \
Receiving no answer, it said, \
then the kitchen boy answered, \
She asked further, \
He answered, \
then, in the form of the queen, she went upstairs, nursed the baby, fluffed up his cover, tucked him in, and then she swam off through the gutter as a duck.
She came in the same manner for two nights. On the third night, she said to the kitchen boy, \it over me three times.\
the kitchen boy ran and told this to the king, who came with his sword and swung it over the spirit three times, and after the third time, his wife was standing before him, vigorous, alive, and healthy, as she had been before.