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EDITOK'S PREFACE. 
 
 Of fairy tales Felix Adler says, in his Moral 
 Instruction of Children : " They may be 
 divided broadly into two classes — one consist- 
 ing of tales which ought to be rejected because 
 they are really harmful and children ought to 
 be protected from their bad influence, the other 
 of tales which have a most beautiful and elevat- 
 ing effect, and which we cannot possibly afford 
 to leave unutilized." 
 
 Heretofore, Grimm's Fairy Tales have been 
 limited in their use for lack of the purifying and 
 eliminating process undertaken in this volume, in 
 which are collected stories illustrating kindness 
 to animals and the unity of life in a variety of 
 conditions. Neither in this volume nor in the 
 one to follow will there be found any stories 
 
i v PRE FA CE. 
 
 with bad morals, as many fairy stories unmis- 
 takably have, — evil motives, magic interposition 
 in favor of idlers and tricksters, cruel step- 
 mothers and unnatural fathers are entirely 
 excluded, the editor having taken full liberty 
 in bringing about certain changes in phrase or 
 plot that were needed to preserve the eternal 
 spirit of love and justice which has been too 
 long buried under the transient forms of many 
 of the classic fairy tales. 
 
 SABA E. WILTSE. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 The Queen Bee 1 
 
 The Frog Prince 10 
 
 The Faithful Beasts 24 
 
 Star Dollars 38 
 
 The Gold Children .......... 42 
 
 The White Snake .-.„.. 60 
 
 Briar Rose 75 
 
 The House in the Wood 88 
 
 The Iron Stove 108 
 
 Snow- White and Rose-Red 130 
 
 The Two Brothers . 156 
 
 The Six Swans 229 
 
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THE QUEEN BEE. 
 
 Once upon a time two sons of a 
 King set out to see the world, and 
 fell into such a wild kind of life 
 that they did not return home. 
 So their youngest brother, 1 
 ling, went to seek them ; but when 
 he found them they mocked him, 
 because of his simple manners. 
 
GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 However they took him with 
 them. 
 
 After a time they came to 
 an ant-hill. This the two older 
 brothers would have torn in 
 pieces, to see the little ants 
 run aw r ay with their eggs; but 
 Dummling said, "Let the little 
 creatures live in peace; I will 
 not let you hurt them." 
 
 Then they went along, until 
 they came to a lake, on which 
 ducks were swimming in great 
 numbers. The two brothers 
 wanted to catch a pair and roast 
 them; but Dummling would not 
 allow it, saying, "Let these fowls 
 
THE QUEEN BEE. 
 
 alone; I will not let you kill 
 them!" 
 
 At last they came to a bees' 
 nest, in which was so much 
 honey, that it was running out at 
 the mouth of the nest. The two 
 brothers would have lain down 
 under the tree and caught the 
 bees as they passed for the sake 
 of their honey; but Dummling 
 again held them back, saying, 
 " Leave the bees alone; I will not 
 let you hurt them ! " 
 
 After this the three brothers 
 came to a castle, in the stable of 
 which stood a number of stone 
 horses, but no man was to be 
 
GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 seen. They went through all 
 the rooms of the castle, until they 
 came to a door, on which hung 
 three locks, and in the middle of 
 the door was a hole through 
 which one could see into a room. 
 Peeping through this hole, they 
 saw a fierce-looking man sitting 
 at a table. They called him 
 once, twice, but he heard not; 
 the third time they called he got 
 up, opened the door and came 
 out. Not a word did he speak, 
 but led them to a well-set table, 
 and when they had eaten, he 
 took each of them into a sleeping- 
 room. 
 
THE QUEEN BEE. 5 
 
 The next morning the man 
 went to the oldest brother and 
 led him to a stone table on which 
 three sentences were written. 
 
 The first was that under the 
 moss in the wood lay the pearls 
 of a King's daughter, a thousand 
 in number. These must be sought, 
 and if at sunset even one was 
 wanting, he who had looked for 
 them would be changed into 
 stone. 
 
 The eldest brother went off 
 and hunted the whole day, but 
 found only a hundred. So that 
 it happened to him as the table 
 had said — he was changed into 
 
GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 stone. The next day the second 
 brother went, but he did no 
 better than the other, for he 
 found but two hundred pearls, 
 and he was turned into stone. 
 Then came Dummling's turn. He 
 searched in the moss, but the 
 pearls were hard to find. Then 
 he sat down upon a stone and 
 wept. While he was weeping, 
 the Ant-King whose life he had 
 once saved came up with five 
 thousand ants, and before very 
 long they found and piled in a 
 heap the whole thousand pearls. 
 The second sentence was to 
 fetch the key of the Princess's 
 
THE QUEEN BEE. 
 
 sleeping-room out of a lake which 
 the brothers had passed. When 
 Dummling returned to the lake, 
 the ducks whose lives he had 
 saved, swam toward him, and 
 diving below the water, quickly 
 brought up the key. 
 
 The third sentence, however, 
 was the hardest of all. Of the 
 three daughters of the king he 
 must pick out the youngest and 
 prettiest. They were all asleep, 
 and looked alike, without a single 
 mark by which to tell them apart, 
 except that before they fell asleep 
 they had eaten three kinds of 
 sweets — the eldest a piece of 
 
GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 sugar, the second a little syrup, 
 and the youngest a spoonful of 
 honey. But in came the Queen 
 Bee of all the bees who had been 
 saved by Dummling, and tried 
 the mouths of the three. 
 
 At last she settled on the mouth 
 which had eaten the honey, and 
 thus the King's son knew which 
 was the right Princess. Then 
 the spell was broken; every one 
 awoke, even those who had been 
 
THE QUEEN BEE. 9 
 
 changed into stone. Dummling 
 was given a whole kingdom as a 
 reward, and the ants, ducks and 
 bees were always his most faith- 
 ful friends and servants. 
 
THE FROG PRINCE. 
 
 In the olden time, when wish- 
 ing was having, there lived a 
 King, w r hose daughters were all 
 beautiful; but the youngest was 
 so very beautiful that the Sun 
 himself, although he saw her very 
 often, was pleased every time he 
 looked at her. 
 
 Near the castle of this King 
 was a large and gloomy forest, 
 
fHE FROG PRINCE. 11 
 
 in the midst of which stood an old 
 lime-tree, beneath whose branches 
 splashed a little fountain. When 
 the day was very hot, the King's 
 youngest daughter would run into 
 this wood and sit down by the 
 fountain; and, when she felt dull, 
 would often play with a golden 
 ball, throwing it up in the air and 
 catching it as it fell. 
 
 One day, when the King's 
 daughter threw this golden ball 
 into the air, it fell on the grass, 
 and rolled past her into the foun- 
 tain. She followed the ball with 
 her eyes, as it sank into the 
 water, which was so deep that no 
 
12 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 one could see to the bottom. 
 Then she began to cry; and, as 
 she cried, a voice called out, 
 "Why weepest thou, O King's 
 daughter? Thy tears would melt 
 even a stone to pity." She looked 
 around to see whence the voice 
 came, and there was a frog 
 stretching his head out of the 
 water. 
 
 "Ah! you old water-paddler," 
 said she, "was it you that spoke? 
 I am weeping for my golden ball 
 which has slipped away from me 
 into the water." 
 
 "Be quiet, and do not cry," 
 said the frog; "perhaps I can 
 
THE FROG PRINCE. 13 
 
 help thee. But what wilt thou 
 give me if I fetch thee thy 
 ball?" 
 
 "What will you have, dear 
 frog?" said she. "My dresses, 
 my rings and pearls, or the golden 
 crown which I wear?" 
 
 The frog answered, "Dresses, 
 or rings, or golden crowns, are not 
 for me; but if thou wilt love me, 
 and let me be thy playmate, and 
 sit at thy table, and eat from thy 
 little golden plate, and drink out 
 of thy cup, and sleep in thy little 
 bed, — if thou wilt promise me all 
 these, then will I dive down and 
 get thy golden ball." 
 
14 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 "Oh, I will promise you all 
 those," said she, "if you will only 
 get me my ball." But she thought 
 to herself, "What a silly frog. 
 Let him remain in the water with 
 his equals; he cannot play with 
 me." 
 
 The frog, as soon as he had 
 her promise, drew his head under 
 the water and dived down. Soon 
 he swam up again with the 
 ball in his mouth, and threw 
 it on the grass. The King's 
 daughter was full of joy when 
 she again saw her beautiful play- 
 thing; and, taking it up, she 
 ran off. 
 
THE FROG PRINCE. 15 
 
 "Stop! stop!" cried the frog; 
 "take me with thee. I cannot 
 run as thou canst." But all his 
 croaking was useless; although it 
 was loud enough, the King's 
 daughter did not heed it, but ran 
 home, and soon forgot the poor 
 frog, who was obliged to leap 
 back into the fountain. 
 
 The next day, when the King's 
 daughter was sitting at table with 
 her father, eating from her own 
 little golden plate, something was 
 heard coming up the marble 
 stairs, splish-splash, splish-splash. 
 When it came to the top, it 
 knocked at the door, and a voice 
 
16 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 said, "Open the door, thou young- 
 est daughter of the King ! " The 
 maiden rose and went to see who 
 it was that called her. When 
 she opened the door and caught 
 sight of the frog, she shut it 
 again, and sat down at the table, 
 looking very pale. The King 
 saw that she was in fear of some- 
 thing, and asked her if a giant 
 had come to take her away, "Oh, 
 no!" answered she; "it is not a 
 giant, but an ugly frog." 
 
 "What does the frog want of 
 you?" said the King. 
 
 "Oh, dear father, when I was 
 playing by the fountain, my golden 
 
THE FROG PRINCE. 17 
 
 ball fell into the water, and this 
 frog fetched it up again because 
 I cried so much. I must tell you, 
 that I promised him he should be 
 my playmate. I never thought 
 that he could come out of the 
 water, but somehow he has 
 jumped out, and now he wants to 
 come in here." 
 
 At that moment there was an- 
 other knock, and a voice said, — 
 
 ''King's daughter, youngest, 
 
 Open the door. 
 Hast thou forgotten 
 Thy promises made 
 At the fountain so clear 
 'Neath the lime-tree's shade ? 
 King's daughter, youngest, 
 
 Open the door." 
 
18 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 Then the King said, "What 
 you have promised, that you must 
 perform; go and let him in." So 
 the King's daughter opened the 
 door, and the frog hopped into 
 the room right up to her chair. 
 As soon as she was seated, the 
 frog said, "Take me up." But 
 she waited so long that at last 
 the King said she must obey the 
 frog. 
 
 As soon as the frog was placed 
 on the chair he jumped upon the 
 table and said, "Now push thy 
 plate near me, that we may both 
 eat from it." And she did so, but 
 as every one saw, with very bad 
 
THE FROG PRINCE. 19 
 
 grace. The frog seemed to relish 
 his dinner, but every bit that 
 the King's daughter ate nearly 
 choked her. At last the frog 
 said, "I feel very tired; wilt thou 
 carry me upstairs into thy chamber 
 and make thy bed ready for me 
 to sleep in it?" At this speech 
 the King's daughter began to cry, 
 for she was afraid of the cold frog, 
 and dared not touch him; and 
 besides, he wanted to sleep in her 
 own beautiful, clean bed. 
 
 But her tears made the King 
 very angry, and he said, "Never 
 treat with scorn one who has 
 helped you in time of your 
 
20 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 trouble." So she took the frog 
 up with two fingers, and put him 
 in a corner of her room. But he 
 hopped up to her and said, "I am 
 so yery tired that I shall sleep 
 well; do let me rest on your pil- 
 low.' 9 But she threw him against 
 the wall, saying, "Now, will you 
 be quiet, you ugly frog ! " 
 
 As he fell he was changed from 
 a frog into a handsome Prince 
 with beautiful eyes, who after a 
 little while became, with her 
 father's consent, her dearest friend 
 and playmate. Then he told her 
 how he had been changed to a 
 frog by an eyil witch, and that no 
 
THE FROG PRINCE. 
 
 21 
 
 one but herself had the power to 
 take him out of the fountain; and 
 that now she should share his 
 kingdom. 
 
 So one day a carriage drawn by 
 eight white horses, with ostrich 
 feathers on their heads, and golden 
 bridles, drove up to the door of 
 
22 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 the palace, and behind the carriage 
 stood trusty Henry, the servant 
 of the young Prince. When his 
 master was changed into a frog, 
 trusty Henry had grieved so much 
 that he had bound three iron bands 
 round his heart, for fear it should 
 break with grief and sorrow. 
 
 When the carriage was ready 
 to carry the young Prince to 
 his own country, the faithful 
 Henry helped the Princess and 
 the Prince into the carriage, and 
 placed himself in the seat behind, 
 full of joy at his master's release. 
 
 They had not gone far when 
 the Prince heard a crack as if 
 
THE FROG PRINCE. 23 
 
 something had broken behind the 
 carriage. He put his head out of 
 the window and asked Henry 
 what had broken, and Henry 
 answered, "It was not the car- 
 riage, my master, but a band 
 which I bound round my heart 
 when it was in such grief because 
 you were changed into a frog." 
 
 Twice afterwards on the journey 
 there was the same noise, and each 
 time the Prince thought that it was 
 some part of the carriage that had 
 given way; but it was only the 
 breaking of the bands which bound 
 the heart of the trusty Henry, who 
 was ever after free and happy. 
 
THE FAITHFUL BEASTS. 
 
 There was once a man who 
 had very little money, but with 
 what he had he went into the 
 wide world. Soon he came to a 
 village where some boys were 
 running together screaming and 
 laughing, and he asked them 
 what was the matter. "Oh!" 
 said they, "we have a mouse 
 which we are going to teach to 
 dance. What sport it will be! 
 How it will skip round!" 
 
 The man pitied the poor mouse, 
 and said, "Let it go, my boys, and 
 I will give you money." He 
 
THE FAITHFUL BEASTS. 25 
 
 gave them some coppers, and they 
 let the poor animal loose, and it 
 ran as fast as it could into a hole 
 close by. 
 
 After this the man went on to 
 another Tillage, where some boys 
 had a monkey, which they forced 
 to dance and tumble, without let- 
 ting the poor thing have any rest. 
 To these also the man gave 
 money to get them to set the 
 monkey free. 
 
 By-and-by, coming to a third 
 village, he saw the boys making a 
 bear dance in chains and stand 
 upright, and if he growled they 
 seemed all the better pleased. 
 
26 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 The man also bought the bear 
 and set him free. The bear, very 
 glad to find himself on his four 
 feet again, tramped away. 
 
 The man had now spent all his 
 money, and found he had not 
 even a copper left in his pocket 
 with which to buy a morsel of 
 food. At last he was nearly dead 
 with hunger, and as no one would 
 give him bread, he was tempted 
 to steal. One of the King's 
 guards caught him and put him 
 into a chest and threw the chest 
 into the water. 
 
 The lid of the chest was full of 
 holes whereby he might obtain 
 
THE FAITHFUL BEASTS. 27 
 
 air, and a jug of water with a loaf 
 of bread were put in for him. 
 
 While he was floating about in 
 great distress of mind, he heard 
 something gnawing and scratch- 
 ing at the lock of his chest, and 
 
 all at once it gave way and up 
 flew the lid. Then he saw the 
 mouse and the monkey and the 
 bear standing by, and found it 
 was they who had opened the 
 chest because he had helped 
 
28 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 them; but they did not know 
 what to do next. 
 
 Just then a white, egg-shaped 
 stone rolled into the water. 
 "This has come in the very nick 
 of time," said the bear, u for it is 
 a magic stone, which will take its 
 owner to whatever place he 
 wishes to see." 
 
 The man picked up the stone, 
 and as he held it in his hand he 
 wished himself in a castle with 
 a garden and stables. Scarcely 
 had he done so when he found 
 himself in a castle with a garden 
 and stables just to his mind, 
 where everything was so beauti- 
 
THE FAITHFUL BEASTS. 29 
 
 ful that he could not admire it 
 enough. 
 
 After a time, some merchants 
 came that way, and, as they 
 passed, one called to the other, 
 "See what a noble castle stands 
 here, where lately there was 
 nothing but dreary sand." They 
 entered the castle and asked the 
 man how he had built the palace 
 so quickly. "I did not do it," 
 said he, "it is the work of my 
 wonderful stone." 
 
 "What kind of a stone can it 
 be?" inquired the merchants; 
 the man showed it to them and 
 the sight of it pleased them so 
 
30 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 much that they asked if he 
 would sell it, and they offered 
 him all their beautiful goods 
 for it. The goods took the man's 
 fancy, and, his heart being fickle 
 and wishing for new things, he 
 thought them worth more than 
 his stone, so he gave it to them, 
 taking their goods in exchange. 
 
 But scarcely had it left his 
 hands when all his fortune was 
 gone, and he found himself again 
 in the floating chest on the water, 
 with nothing but the jug of water 
 and loaf of bread. 
 
 The faithful beasts, the mouse, 
 the monkey, and the bear, as 
 
THE FAITHFUL BEASTS. 31 
 
 soon as they saw this, came 
 again to help him, but they could 
 not unfasten the lock, because 
 it was much stronger than the 
 former one. The bear said, "We 
 must get the wonderful stone 
 again, or our work is useless." 
 
 Now, the merchants had 
 stopped at the castle and lived 
 there, so the three faithful animals 
 went together to the castle. The 
 bear said the mouse must peep 
 through the keyhole and see what 
 was going on, for, being so small, 
 no one would notice him. The 
 mouse soon came back, and said, 
 "It is useless, I have peeped in, 
 
32 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 but the stone hangs on a red rib- 
 bon below the mirror, and above 
 and below sit two great cats with 
 fiery eyes to watch it." 
 
 The bear and the monkey said, 
 "Never mind, go back again and 
 wait till the master goes to bed 
 and falls asleep; then do you slip 
 in through the hole and creep on 
 the bed, twitch his nose and bite 
 off one of his whiskers." 
 
 So the mouse crept in and 
 did as she was told, and the 
 master, waking up, rubbed his 
 nose in a passion, and said, 
 "The cats are worth nothing! 
 They let in the mice, who bite 
 
THE FAITHFUL BEASTS. 33 
 
 the very hair off my head!" and 
 so saying, he drove the cats 
 away. 
 
 The next night, as soon as the 
 master was sound asleep, the 
 mouse crept in again, and nibbled 
 and gnawed at the ribbon until it 
 broke in halves, and down fell the 
 stone, which she then pushed out 
 under the door. But this was 
 very hard for the poor mouse to 
 manage, and she called to the 
 monkey, who drew it quite out 
 with his long paws. This was an 
 easy matter for him, and he 
 carried the stone down to the 
 water. 
 
34 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 • 
 
 There the monkey asked how 
 they were to get at the chest. 
 "Oh," replied the bear, "that is 
 easy to do; you, monkey, shall 
 sit upon my back, holding fast 
 with your hands while you carry 
 the stone in your mouth. You, 
 mouse, can sit in my right ear 
 and I will swim to the chest." 
 They all did as the bear said, and 
 he swam off down the river. 
 
 Soon he felt uneasy at the 
 silence, and began to chatter to 
 himself. At last he said, "Do 
 you hear, Mr. Monkey? We are 
 brave fellows." But the monkey 
 did not answer a word. "Is that 
 
THE FAITHFUL BEASTS. 35 
 
 manners?" said the bear, again. 
 "Will you not give your comrade 
 an answer? A crabbed fellow is 
 he who makes no reply." 
 
 Then the monkey could no 
 longer restrain himself, and letting 
 the stone fall into the water, he 
 cried out, "You stupid fellow, 
 how could I answer you with 
 the stone in my mouth? Now it 
 is lost, and it is your own fault." 
 
 "Do not be angry," said the 
 bear; "we will soon find it." 
 Then he called to all the frogs 
 and other creatures living in the 
 water, and said to them, "There 
 is an enemy coming against you; 
 
36 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 but make haste and bring us 
 some stones as quickly as you can, 
 and we will build a wall to protect 
 you." 
 
 These words frightened the 
 water animals, and they brought 
 stones from all sides. At last a 
 fat old frog came waddling along, 
 with the wonderful stone in her 
 mouth. Then the bear was glad, 
 and taking the stone he thanked 
 them all and told them, they 
 might go home. Then the three 
 beasts swam to the man in the 
 chest, and, breaking the lid by 
 the aid of stones, they found they 
 had come just in the nick of time, 
 
THE FAITHFUL BEASTS. 
 
 37 
 
 for he had just drunk his last 
 drop of water and eaten the last 
 crumb of his bread, and was al- 
 most starved. As soon as the man 
 took the magic stone in his hand 
 he wished himself quite well and 
 back in the castle with the garden 
 and stables. No sooner had he 
 wished than he was there, and his 
 three faithful beasts with him. 
 And there they all lived in great 
 comfort to the end of their days. 
 
 i 
 
 
 
STAR DOLLARS. 
 
 Once upon a time, there was 
 a little girl whose father and 
 mother died leaving her so poor 
 that she had no roof to shelter 
 her, and no bed to sleep in. At 
 last she had nothing left but the 
 clothes on her back, and a loaf of 
 bread in her hand, which some 
 kind person had given to her. 
 But she was a good and pious 
 little girl, and when she found 
 herself forsaken by all the world, 
 she went into the fields, trusting 
 God. 
 
STAR DOLLARS. 
 
 39 
 
 Soon she met a poor man, who 
 said to her, "Give me something 
 to eat, for I am very hungry." 
 She handed him the whole loaf; 
 and, with a "God bless you!" 
 walked on. 
 
 Next she met a little girl cry- 
 ing. This child said, "Pray give 
 me something to cover my head, 
 it is so cold!" She then took off 
 her bonnet, and gave it away. 
 
40 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 Then she met another who had 
 no dress, and to this one she gave 
 her frock. By that time it was 
 growing dark, and our little girl 
 entered a forest, where she met 
 a fourth maiden, who begged for 
 something to wear, and to her she 
 gave her petticoat. For, thought 
 our heroine, "It is growing dark, 
 and no one will see me, so I can 
 give away this." And now when 
 she had scarcely anything left to 
 cover herself with some of the 
 stars fell down in the form of 
 silver dollars, and among them 
 she found a petticoat of the finest 
 linen! And in that she collected 
 
STAR DOLLARS. 
 
 41 
 
 the star-money, which made her 
 rich all the rest of her life ! 
 
THE GOLD CHILDREN. 
 
 Once upon a time, there was a 
 poor man and his wife, who had 
 nothing in the world but their 
 hut. They lived from hand to 
 mouth by catching fish. Once 
 the man, sitting by the water's 
 edge, threw in his net, and drew 
 out a golden fish. While he was 
 looking at the fish with great 
 wonder, it said, "Do you hear, 
 fisherman? Throw me back into 
 the water, and I will change your 
 hut into a fine castle." But the 
 fisherman replied, "What use is a 
 
THE GOLD CHILDREN. 43 
 
 castle to me if I have nothing to 
 eat?" "That is taken care of," 
 said the fish, "for in the castle 
 you will find a cupboard, which is 
 full of food." 
 
 "Well, if that be so," said the 
 man, "you will soon have your 
 wish." 
 
 "Yes," said the fish, "but you 
 must make me one promise: that 
 you tell nobody in the world, 
 whoever he may be, from whence 
 your luck comes, for if you speak 
 a single word about it, all will be 
 lost." 
 
 The man threw the fish back 
 into the water and went home; 
 
44 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 and where his hut had stood he 
 found a large castle. The sight 
 made him open his eyes, and step- 
 ping in, he found his wife dressed 
 in costly clothes, sitting in a large 
 room. She was very much 
 pleased, and said, " Husband, how 
 has all this happened? This is 
 very nice ! " 
 
 "Yes," replied her husband, 
 "it pleases me also; but now I 
 am hungry, so give me something 
 to eat." 
 
 His wife said, "I have nothing, 
 and I am sure I do not know 
 where to find any food in this 
 new house!" 
 
THE GOLD CHILDREN. 45 
 
 "Oh! there is a great cupboard; 
 open that," said the husband; 
 and, as soon as she did so, behold! 
 There were cakes, meat, and fruit. 
 At the sight of these the wife 
 laughed, and cried, "What else 
 can you wish for now, my dear?" 
 and they began eating at once. 
 But, when they had had enough, 
 the wife asked, "Now, my hus- 
 band, whence comes all this?" 
 
 "Ah," he said, "do not ask! 
 I dare not tell you, for if I let out 
 the secret to any one our fortune 
 will fly." "Well, I am sure I do 
 not want to know," she replied; 
 but she was not in earnest, and 
 
46 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 she let him have no peace, night 
 or day, teasing him so long, that 
 at last he told her that all their 
 fortune came from a golden fish 
 which he had caught and set free 
 again. 
 
 No sooner were the words out 
 of his mouth, than the fine castle, 
 with its cupboard, was gone, and 
 they found themselves again in 
 their old hut. 
 
 The man now had to take up 
 his old trade of fishing, and he 
 pulled out the golden fish a 
 second time. "Alas," said the 
 fish, "let me go again, and I will 
 give you back your castle, with 
 
THE GOLD CHILDREN. 47 
 
 the cupboard of meat; only keep 
 it secret, or again you will lose 
 all." 
 
 "I will take care," replied the 
 fisherman, and he threw the fish 
 into the water. At home all was 
 in its former splendor, and the 
 wife was glad of her good 
 fortune; but, after a few days, 
 she began to beg her husband 
 again to tell her how he came 
 by the castle. 
 
 For a long time the man held 
 his tongue, but at length he be- 
 came so angry with her that he 
 told the secret. At the same 
 moment the castle sank into the 
 
48 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 earth, and they found themselves 
 in the old hut. "There, are you 
 happy now?" said the man to his 
 wife. "Now we may feel the 
 pangs of hunger again." "Ah," 
 she replied, "I do not care for 
 wealth unless I may know from 
 whence it comes." 
 
 The man went fishing again, 
 and in a few days he was lucky 
 enough to pull up the golden fish 
 for a third time. "Well, well," 
 said the fish, "I see I am fated to 
 fall into your hands, so take me 
 home and cut me into six pieces; 
 two of which you must give to 
 your wife to eat, two to your 
 
THE GOLD CHILDREN. 49 
 
 horse, and two you must put into 
 the ground, and then you will be 
 blessed." 
 
 The man took the fish home, 
 and did as it had said. From the 
 two pieces which he sowed in the 
 ground, golden lilies grew up; 
 from the two pieces eaten by the 
 horse, two golden colts were 
 born; and from the wife's share, 
 she had two golden children. 
 
 The children grew up beautiful 
 and fair, and with them grew the 
 two lilies and the two colts. One 
 day the children said to their 
 father, "We will mount our golden 
 steeds and travel in the world." 
 
50 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 But he replied, "How shall I 
 know if you are well and happy 
 when you are so far from me ? " 
 
 "The two golden lilies," said 
 they, "will remain here, and by 
 them you can see how we 
 prosper: are they fresh, so are 
 we well; do they droop, so are 
 we ill; do they die, so are we 
 dead." 
 
 With these words they rode 
 away, and soon came to an inn 
 where there were many people, 
 who, when they saw the two 
 golden children, laughed at them. 
 One of them, when he heard the 
 jeers, was ashamed, and would 
 
THE GOLD CHILDREN. 51 
 
 go no farther, but turned round 
 and went home to his father; the 
 other rode on till he came to a 
 large forest. Just as he was 
 about to ride into it the people 
 said to him, "You would better 
 not go there, for the forest is full 
 of robbers, who will act badly to 
 you, and when they see that you 
 and your horse are golden they 
 will kill you." 
 
 But the youth said, "I must 
 and will go." 
 
 Then he took bears' skins, and 
 covered himself and his horse 
 with them, so that nothing golden 
 could be seen; this done, he rode 
 
52 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 into the wood. When he had 
 ridden a little way, he heard a 
 a rustling among the bushes, and 
 soon heard voices talking. One 
 voice said, "Here comes one!" 
 But another said, "Let him alone; 
 he's only a bear hunter, and as 
 poor and cold as a church-mouse. 
 What should we do with him?" 
 
 So the gold child rode un- 
 harmed through the forest. Next 
 he came to a village, where he 
 saw a maiden so beautiful that he 
 thought there could not be one 
 like her in all the world. He 
 loved her, and asked her if she 
 would be his wife. 
 
THE GOLD CHILDREN. 53 
 
 The maiden was very much 
 pleased, and said, "Yes, I will 
 become your wife, and be faithful 
 to you all your life." Then they 
 made a wedding feast, and while 
 they were still at the table the 
 father of the bride came, and 
 asked, in great anger, where the 
 bridegroom was. 
 
 They showed him the golden 
 child, who still wore his bear-skins 
 around him, and the father said, 
 "Never shall a bear-hunter marry 
 my daughter!" and he w x ould have 
 killed him. The bride begged for 
 his life, saying, "He is my hus- 
 band, and I love him with all my 
 
54 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 heart"; so at last her father 
 consented to spare him. 
 
 The father, however, was always 
 thinking about this man, and one 
 morning 1 he rose early in order to 
 look at his daughter's husband, and 
 see whether he were a common 
 ragged beggar or not. When he 
 looked, behold there was a golden 
 man, while the thrown-off bear's 
 skin lay upon the ground. Then 
 the father went away, well pleased 
 that he had not killed the bear- 
 hunter. 
 
 The same night the gold child 
 dreamed that he hunted a fine 
 stag, and when he awoke in the 
 
THE GOLD CHILDREN. 55 
 
 morning, he said to his bride, "I 
 must be off to the hunt!" She 
 begged him to stay, and said, "A 
 great misfortune may happen to 
 you"; but he said, "I must and 
 will go!" 
 
 So he rode away into the forest, 
 and soon met a proud stag, just as 
 he had dreamed. He aimed at it, 
 and would have shot, but the stag 
 sprang off. Then he followed it 
 oyer hedges and ditches the whole 
 day, and at evening it went from 
 his sight. When now the gold 
 child looked round, he found him- 
 self before a little house, where 
 dwelt a witch. He knocked at 
 
56 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 the door, and a little old woman 
 came, and asked, "What are you 
 doing so late in the midst of this 
 forest?" 
 
 "Haye you not seen a stag?" 
 he inquired. 
 
 "Yes," she replied; "I know 
 the stag well": just then a little 
 dog which was in-doors barked 
 loudly at the stranger. "Be quiet, 
 you evil dog!" he cried; "or I will 
 shoot you." At this the witch 
 was in a great passion, and cried, 
 "What! will you kill my dog?" 
 Then she turned the gold child into 
 a stone, His poor wife waited for 
 him in vain, and soon she thought, 
 
THE GOLD CHILDREN. 
 
 57 
 
 "Ah! what I feared in my heavy 
 heart has fallen upon him." 
 
 But at home the other brother 
 stood by the golden lilies, and 
 suddenly one of them fell off. 
 
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 & 
 ,-.* 
 
 f*.^ 
 
 "Ah, Heaven!" said he, "some 
 great misfortune has happened to 
 my brother! I must be off, and 
 see if I can save him." 
 
 But the father said, "Stay here, 
 
58 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 If I lose you, too, what will be- 
 come of me?" 
 
 "I must and will go," said the 
 youth. So he mounted his golden 
 horse, and rode away till he came 
 to the large forest where his 
 brother lay in the form of a stone. 
 Out of her house came the old 
 witch, who called to him, and 
 would have turned him to stone 
 also, but without going near her, 
 he said, "I will shoot you if you 
 do not restore my brother to me." 
 
 She was afraid of the brave 
 brother, and, touching the stone 
 with her fingers, she gave the 
 gold child his human form again. 
 
THE GOLD CHILDREN. 59 
 
 The two gold children were full 
 of joy when they saw each other 
 again, and kissed and embraced, 
 and rode together out of the 
 forest. Then they parted — the 
 one went to his bride, and the 
 other to his father. The father 
 said to the child that returned to 
 him, "I knew that you had saved 
 your brother, for the golden lily 
 became fresh and blooming while 
 you were gone." 
 
 After this they lived happily, 
 and all went well with them till 
 the end of their lives. 
 
THE WHITE SNAKE. 
 
 A long while ago there lived a 
 King whose wisdom was the 
 wonder of the world. Nothing 
 was unknown to him, and it 
 seemed as if the tidings of the 
 most hidden things were borne to 
 him through the air. He had, 
 however, one strange custom: 
 every noon, when the table was 
 quite cleared, and no one was 
 present, his trusty servant had to 
 bring him a covered dish. The 
 servant himself did not know 
 what lay in it, and no man knew, 
 
THE WHITE SNAKE. 61 
 
 for the King never ate thereof 
 until he was quite alone. 
 
 This went on for a long time, 
 until one day the servant who 
 carried the dish was seized with 
 such a desire to know the secret, 
 that he could not resist it, and so 
 took the dish into his chamber. 
 As soon as he had locked the door, 
 he raised the cover, and there 
 lay before him a white snake. 
 When he saw it, he wished to 
 taste it, so he cut a piece off and 
 put it into his mouth. Scarcely 
 had his tongue touched it, when 
 he heard before his window a 
 strange whisper of low voices. 
 
62 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 He listened, and found out that 
 it was the sparrows who were 
 talking with one another, and 
 telling what each had seen in 
 field or wood. The morsel of the 
 snake had given him the power 
 to understand the speech of 
 animals. 
 
 Now it happened on this day 
 that the Queen lost her finest 
 ring, and many thought this 
 faithful servant, who had the care 
 of all her jewels, had stolen it. 
 The King ordered him to appear 
 before him, and said, in angry 
 words, that he should be taken 
 up and tried if he did not know 
 
THE WHITE SNAKE. 63 
 
 before the morrow whom to name 
 as the guilty person. 
 
 In his distress and trouble the 
 servant went away into the court- 
 yard, thinking how he might 
 help himself. There, on a run- 
 ning stream of water, the ducks 
 were smoothing themselves down 
 with their beaks while they 
 talked to each other. The ser- 
 vant stood still and listened to 
 them as they told where they 
 had waddled, and what nice food 
 they had found. One said, in a 
 vexed tone, "Something very 
 hard is in my stomach, for in my 
 haste I swallowed a ring which 
 
64 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 lay under the Queen's window." 
 Then the servant caught the 
 speaker up by her neck, and 
 carried hei to the cook, saying, 
 "Just kill this fowl, it is fat." 
 "Yes," said the cook, lifting it 
 in her hand, "it has spared no 
 trouble in cramming itself; it 
 ought to have been roasted long 
 ago." So saying, she chopped 
 off its head, and, when she cut it 
 open, in its stomach was found 
 the Queen's ring. 
 
 The servant was now able to 
 prove his innocence to the Queen, 
 who, wishing to repair the wrong 
 done him, not only granted him 
 
THE WHITE SNAKE. 65 
 
 pardon, but offered him the great- 
 est place of honor at court. The 
 servant refused the office, and 
 asked for a horse and money in- 
 stead, for he had a desire to see 
 the world, and to travel about it 
 for a while. 
 
 As soon as his wish was granted 
 he set off on his tour. One day 
 he came to a pond, in which he 
 saw three fishes caught in the 
 reeds, gasping for water. Al- 
 though men say fishes are dumb, 
 yet he heard their complaint, that 
 they must soon die. Having a 
 kind heart, he put them into the 
 water again. They splashed about 
 
66 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 for joy, and putting their heads 
 above the water, said to him, "We 
 shall be grateful, and repay you 
 for saying us." 
 
 He rode onwards, and, after a 
 while, heard, as it were, a voice in 
 the sand at his feet. He listened, 
 and heard an Ant King complain 
 thus: "If these men would but 
 keep away with their great fat 
 beasts! Here comes an awkward 
 horse treading my people under 
 foot without mercy." So he rode 
 on to a side path, and the Ant 
 King called to him, "We will be 
 grateful and reward you." 
 
 His way led him into a forest, 
 
THE WHITE SNAKE. 67 
 
 and there he saw two ravens 
 dragging their young out of their 
 nest. "Off with you," they cried, 
 "we can feed you no longer, you 
 are big enough now to help your- 
 selves." The poor young ones 
 lay on the ground beating their 
 wings and crying, "We helpless 
 children, we must feed ourselves, 
 we who cannot fly yet! What 
 is left to us but to die here of 
 hunger?" Then the servant gave 
 them food enough to last until 
 they could fly, and they said: 
 "We will be grateful, and will 
 reward you in time of need!" 
 After he had gone a long way 
 
68 
 
 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 he came to a large town, in the 
 streets of which there was a great 
 crowd. A man on horseback 
 shouted as he rode, "The Princess 
 seeks a husband ; but he who wins 
 
 her must perform a hard task, 
 and, if he fails, his life shall be 
 lost." Many had tried in vain. 
 But when the youth saw the 
 Princess, he was so blinded by 
 
THE WHITE SNAKE. 69 
 
 her beauty, that he forgot all 
 danger, and stepping before the 
 King, offered himself as a suitor. 
 
 He was taken to the sea, and a 
 golden ring was thrown in before 
 his eyes. Then the King bade 
 him fetch this ring up again from 
 the bottom of the sea, adding, 
 "If you rise without the ring, 
 you shall be thrown in again and 
 again, until you perish in the 
 waves." Every one pitied the 
 handsome youth, and then left 
 him alone on the sea-shore. 
 
 While he stood planning what 
 he should do, he saw three fishes 
 swimming towards him, and they 
 
70 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 were no others than the three 
 whose lives he had saved. The 
 middle one bore a mussel-shell in 
 its mouth, which it laid on the 
 shore at the feet of the youth, 
 who opened it, and found the gold 
 ring within. 
 
 Full of joy, he took it to the 
 King, hoping that he should re- 
 ceive his reward. But the proud 
 Princess, when she saw that he 
 was not her equal in birth, was 
 ashamed of him, and gave him a 
 second task. She went into the 
 garden and strewed there ten 
 bags of millet-seed in the grass, 
 saying, " These he must pick up 
 
THE WHITE SNAKE. 71 
 
 before sunrise to-morrow, and let 
 him not miss one grain." 
 
 The youth sat down in the gar- 
 den, wondering how he could do 
 it, but as he could devise no way, 
 he sat there in sorrow, fearing at 
 the dawn of day to be led to his 
 death. 
 
 But, as soon as the first rays of 
 the sun fell on the garden, he 
 saw that the ten sacks were all 
 filled and standing by him, while 
 not a single grain was left in the 
 grass. The Ant King had come 
 in the night with his thousands 
 and thousands of men, and the 
 grateful insects had picked up 
 
72 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 every seed of the millet and put 
 it into the sacks. 
 
 The Princess herself came into 
 the garden, and saw with wonder 
 that the youth had done what 
 was asked of him. 
 
 Still she could not bend her 
 proud heart, and she said, " Al- 
 though he may have done these 
 two tasks, yet he shall not be my 
 husband until he has brought me 
 an apple from the tree of life." 
 
 The youth did not know where 
 the tree of life stood; he got up, 
 indeed, and was willing to go, 
 but he had no hope of finding it. 
 After he had gone through three 
 
THE WHITE SNAKE. 73 
 
 kingdoms, he' came at evening to 
 a forest, and sat down under a 
 tree, for he wished to sleep. 
 Suddenly he heard a rustling in 
 the branches, and a golden apple 
 fell into his hand. At the same 
 time three ravens flew down, and 
 settled on his knee, saying, "We 
 are the three young ravens whom 
 you saved from dying of hunger; 
 when we were grown up, and 
 heard that you sought the golden 
 apple, then we flew over the sea, 
 even to the end of the world 
 where stands the tree of life, 
 and we have brought you the 
 apple." 
 
74 
 
 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 Full of joy the youth set out 
 on his return, and gave the 
 golden apple to the beautiful 
 Princess, who now had no more 
 excuses. So they divided the 
 apple of life, and after they had 
 eaten it, the heart of the Princess 
 was filled with love towards the 
 youth, and they lived to a great 
 age in peace and happiness. 
 
BRIAR ROSE. 
 
 Iisr olden times there liyed a 
 King and Queen, who wished day 
 by day that they had children, 
 and yet never a one was born. 
 One day, as the Queen was bath- 
 ing, a frog hopped out of the 
 water, and said to her, "You 
 shall have your wish; before a 
 year passes you shall have a 
 daughter." 
 
 As the frog had said, so it 
 happened, and a little girl was 
 born, who was so beautiful that 
 the King almost lost his senses. 
 
76 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES, 
 
 He ordered a great feast to be 
 held, and invited to it not only 
 his relatives, friends, and acquaint- 
 ances, but also twelve fairy women 
 who are kind to children. There 
 happened to be thirteen of these 
 in his kingdom, but, since he had 
 only twelve golden plates from 
 which they could eat, one had to 
 stay at home. 
 
 The feast was held, and, as soon 
 as it was over, the wise women 
 gave the infant their wonderful 
 gifts: one gave virtue, another 
 beauty, a third riches, and so on, 
 until the child had everything 
 that is to be desired in the world. 
 
BRIAR ROSE. 77 
 
 Just as eleven had given their 
 presents, the thirteenth old lady 
 stepped in. She was in a passion 
 because she had not been invited, 
 and, without greeting or looking 
 at any one, she exclaimed loudly, 
 "The Princess shall prick herself 
 with a spindle on her fifteenth 
 birthday and die!" and without a 
 word more she turned her back 
 and left the hall. 
 
 All were terrified. But the 
 twelfth fairy, who had not yet 
 made her wish, stepped up, and 
 because she could not take away 
 the evil wish, but could only 
 soften it, she said, "The Princess 
 
78 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 shall not die of the wound, but 
 shall fall into a sleep for a hun- 
 dred years." 
 
 Then the King, who wished to 
 protect his child from this fate, 
 made a decree that every spindle 
 in the kingdom should be burnt. 
 In time all the wishes of the 
 wise women were fulfilled, and 
 the maiden became so beautiful, 
 gentle, virtuous, and clever, that 
 every one who saw her fell in 
 love with her. On the day that 
 she was fifteen years old, she 
 happened to be left alone in the 
 castle. The maiden looked about 
 in every place, going through all 
 
BRIAR ROSE. 
 
 79 
 
 the rooms and chambers just as 
 she pleased, until she came at last 
 to an old tower. Up the narrow, 
 winding staircase she tripped, 
 until she came to a door, in 
 
 the lock of which was a rusty 
 key. This she turned, and the 
 door swung open, and there in 
 the little room sat an old woman 
 spinning flax. 
 
80 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 "Good day, my good old lady," 
 said the Princess, "what are yon 
 doing here?" 
 
 "I am spinning," said the old 
 woman, nodding her head. 
 
 "What thing is this which 
 twists round so merrily?" asked 
 the maiden, as she took the 
 spindle to try her hand at spin- 
 ning. Scarcely had she done so 
 when she pricked her finger, and 
 at the very same moment fell 
 back in a deep sleep upon a bed 
 which stood near. Every body 
 in the castle fell asleep also. The 
 King and Queen, who had just 
 returned, fell asleep in the hall, 
 
BRIAR ROSE. 81 
 
 and all their courtiers with them 
 
 — the horses in the stables, the 
 doves upon the eaves, the flies 
 upon the walls, and even the fire 
 upon the hearth, all ceased to stir, 
 
 — the meat which was cooking 
 ceased to sizzle, and the cook, at 
 the instant of pulling the hair of 
 the kitchen boy, lost his hold and 
 began to snore. The wind fell, 
 and not a leaf rustled on the trees 
 round the castle. 
 
 Now, around the palace a thick 
 hedge of briars began to grow. 
 Every year it grew higher and 
 higher, till the castle was quite 
 hidden from view, so that one 
 
82 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 could not even see the flag upon 
 the tower. Then there went 
 through the land a legend of the 
 beautiful maiden Briar Rose, for 
 so was the sleeping Princess 
 named, and from time to time 
 Princes came and tried to break 
 through the hedge into the 
 castle. This was impossible, for 
 the thorns held them, as if by 
 hands, and the youths, unable 
 to release themselves, perished 
 miserably. 
 
 After the lapse of many years, 
 there came another King's son 
 into the country. He heard an 
 old man tell the legend of the 
 
BRIAR ROSE. 83 
 
 hedge of briars, behind which 
 stood a castle where slept a fair 
 and lovely Princess called Briar 
 Rose, who had slumbered nearly 
 a hundred years, and with her 
 the King and Queen and all their 
 court. The old man also told 
 what he had heard from his 
 grandfather, that many a Prince 
 had come from afar and tried to 
 get through the hedge, but had 
 died a miserable death. This 
 youth was not to be daunted, 
 and however much the old man 
 tried to dissuade him, he only 
 answered, "I fear not, I will see 
 this hedge of briars ! " 
 
84 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 Just at that time came the last 
 day of the hundred years, when 
 Briar Rose was to wake again. 
 As the young Prince drew near 
 the hedge, the thorns turned to 
 large, fine flowers, which of their 
 own accord made a way for him 
 to pass through, and again closed 
 up behind him. In the court- 
 yard he saw the horses and dogs 
 lying fast asleep, and on the 
 eaves were the doves with their 
 heads beneath their wings. 
 
 In the house he saw the flies 
 asleep upon the wall, the cook 
 still standing with his hand on 
 the hair of the kitchen-boy, and 
 
BRIAR ROSE. 85 
 
 the maid at the board with the 
 fowl in her hand. He went on 5 
 and found the courtiers lying 
 asleep in the hall, and above, by 
 the throne, were the King and 
 the Queen. He went on further, 
 and all was so quiet that he could 
 hear himself breathe, till at last 
 he came to the tower and opened 
 the door of the little room where 
 slept Briar Rose. There she lay, 
 looking so beautiful that he could 
 not turn away his eyes, and he 
 bent over her and kissed her. As 
 he did so she opened her eyes, 
 awoke, and greeted him with 
 smiles. Then they went down 
 
86 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 together, and instantly the King 
 and Queen and the whole court 
 awoke, and stared at each other. 
 
 Then the horses in the stable 
 got up and shook themselves, — 
 the dogs wagged their tails, — 
 the doves upon the eaves drew 
 their heads from under their 
 wings, looked around, and flew 
 away, — the flies upon the walls 
 began to crawl, — the fire began 
 to burn brightly and to cook the 
 meat, — the meat began again to 
 sizzle, — the cook gave his lad a 
 box upon the ear which made 
 him call out, — and the maid be- 
 gan to pluck the fowl. The whole 
 
BRIAR ROSE. 
 
 87 
 
 palace was once more in motion, 
 as if nothing had occurred; for 
 the hundred years' sleep had 
 made no change in any one. 
 
 By-and-by the wedding of the 
 Prince and Briar Rose was cele- 
 brated with great splendor, and 
 to the end of their lives they 
 lived contented and happy. 
 
THE HOUSE IN THE WOOD. 
 
 There was a poor wood-cutter, 
 who lived with his wife and three 
 daughters in a little hut at the 
 edge of a large forest. One 
 morning, when he went out to 
 his usual work, he said to his 
 wife, "Let my dinner be brought 
 by our eldest daughter, for I 
 shall not be ready to come home 
 until evening. That she may 
 not lose her way, I will take with 
 me a bag of seeds and strew 
 them in my path." 
 
 When the sun was risen to the 
 
THE HOUSE IN THE WOOD. . 89 
 
 center of the heavens, the maiden 
 set out on her way, carrying a 
 jug of soup. But the field and 
 wood-sparrows, the larks, black- 
 birds, goldfinches and green- 
 finches had picked up the seeds, 
 so that the maiden could find no 
 trace of the way. But she walked 
 on, trusting to fortune, till the 
 sun set and night came on. 
 
 The trees rustled in the dark- 
 ness, the owls hooted and the girl 
 began to feel afraid. All at once 
 she saw a shining light at a dis- 
 tance among the trees. "People 
 must dwell there," she thought, 
 "who will keep me during the 
 
90 
 
 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 night"; and she walked towards 
 the light. 
 
 In a short time she came to a 
 cottage where the windows were 
 all lighted up, and when she 
 
 knocked at the door a hoarse 
 voice called, "Come in." 
 
 The girl opened the door and 
 saw a hoary old man sitting at a 
 table with his face buried in his 
 hands, and his white beard flow- 
 
THE HOUSE IN THE WOOD. 91 
 
 ing over the table down to the 
 ground. On the hearth lay three 
 animals, — a hen, a cock and a 
 brindled cow. The girl told the 
 old man her adventures, and 
 begged for a night's lodging. 
 The man said: 
 
 "Pretty Hen, pretty Cock, 
 And pretty brindled Cow, 
 What have you to say to that? " 
 
 "Cluck!" said the fowls: and as 
 that meant they were satisfied, 
 the old man said to the maiden, 
 "Here is abundance, and to 
 spare; go into the kitchen and 
 cook some supper for us." 
 
 The girl found plenty of every- 
 
92 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 thing in the kitchen and cooked 
 a good meal, but thought nothing 
 about the animals. When the 
 supper was ready she carried a 
 full dish into the room, and, sit- 
 ting down opposite the old man, 
 ate, till her hunger was satisfied. 
 This done, she said "I am very 
 tired; where shall I sleep?" The 
 animals replied: 
 
 '' You have eaten with him, 
 You have drunk, too, with him ; 
 And yet you have not thought of us ; 
 Still you may pass the night here." 
 
 Thereupon the old man said, 
 "Step down the stairs and you 
 will come to a room containing 
 
THE HOUSE IN THE WOOD. 93 
 
 two beds; shake them up, and 
 cover them with white sheets, 
 and then I will come and lie 
 down to sleep myself." 
 
 The maiden stepped down the 
 stairs, and as soon as she had 
 shaken up the beds and covered 
 them afresh, she laid herself down 
 in one. After some time the old 
 man came, and, looking at the 
 girl, shook his head when he saw 
 she was fast asleep; and then, 
 opening a trap-door he dropped 
 her down into the cellar below. 
 
 Late in the evening the wood- 
 cutter went home, and scolded his 
 wife because she had let him 
 
94 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 hunger all day long. "It is not 
 my fault," she replied; "the girl 
 was sent out with your dinner; 
 she must have lost her way; but 
 to-morrow, no doubt, she will 
 return." 
 
 At daybreak the next morning 
 the wood-cutter got up to go into 
 the forest, and told his wife to 
 send the second daughter with his 
 dinner this time. "I will take 
 a bag of peas," he said; "they 
 are larger than corn-seed, and 
 the girl will therefore see them 
 better, and not lose my track." 
 
 At noonday the girl set out 
 with her father's dinner: but the 
 
THE HOUSE IN THE WOOD. 95 
 
 peas had all disappeared, for the 
 wood-birds had picked them up 
 as they had picked up the seeds 
 on the day before. So the poor 
 girl wandered about in the forest 
 till it was quite dark, and then 
 she also arrived at the old man's 
 hut, was invited in, and begged 
 food and a night's lodging. 
 
 The man of the white beard 
 asked his animals again : 
 
 " Pretty Hen, pretty Cock, 
 And pretty brindled Cow, 
 What have you to say to that?" 
 
 They answered, " Cluck!" and 
 everything happened the same as 
 on the previous day. 
 
96 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 The girl cooked a good meal, 
 ate and drank with the old man, 
 but never once thought of the 
 animals; and when she asked for 
 her bed, they made answer: 
 
 "You have eaten with him, 
 You have drunk, too, with him; 
 And yet you have not thought of us; 
 Still you may pass the night here." 
 
 As soon as she had gone to 
 sleep the old man came, and, 
 after looking at her and shaking 
 his head as before, he dropped 
 her into the cellar below. 
 
 On the third morning, the 
 wood-cutter told his wife to send 
 their youngest child with his 
 
THE HOUSE IN THE WOOD. 97 
 
 dinner: "For," said he, "She is 
 always obedient and good; she 
 will keep in the right path, and 
 not run about like her sisters!" 
 
 But the mother refused, and 
 said, "Shall I lose my youngest 
 child too?" 
 
 "Be not afraid of that," said 
 her husband; "the girl will not 
 miss her way, she is too steady 
 and prudent; but I will take 
 beans to strew; they are larger 
 than peas, and will show her the 
 way better." 
 
 By-and-by, when the girl went 
 out with her basket on her arm, 
 she found that the wood-pigeons 
 
98 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 had eaten up all the beans, and 
 she knew not which way to turn. 
 She was full of trouble, and 
 thought with sorrow how her 
 father would want his dinner, 
 and how her dear mother would 
 grieve when she did not return. 
 At length, when it became quite 
 dark, she also saw the lighted 
 cottage, and entering it, begged 
 very politely to be allowed to pass 
 the night there. 
 
 The old man asked the animals 
 a third time in the same words: 
 
 "Pretty Hen, pretty Cock, 
 And pretty brindled Cow, 
 What have yon to say to that?" 
 
THE HOUSE IN THE WOOD. 99 
 
 "Cluck, cluck!" said they. There- 
 upon the maiden stepped up to 
 the fire, near which they lay, and 
 fondled the pretty hen and cock, 
 smoothing their plumage down 
 with her hands, and stroking the 
 cow between her horns. 
 
 Afterwards, when at the old 
 man's request she had prepared a 
 good supper, and had placed the 
 dishes on the table, she thought to 
 herself, "I must not appease my 
 hunger until I have fed these good 
 creatures. There is plenty in the 
 kitchen; I will serve them first." 
 
 Thus thinking, she brought 
 some corn and strewed it before 
 
100 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 the fowls, and then she gave an 
 armful of hay to the cow. "Now, 
 eat away, you good creatures," 
 said she to them, "and when you 
 are thirsty you shall have a cool 
 fresh draught." So saying she 
 brought in a pailful of water; and 
 the hen and cock perched them- 
 selves on its edge, put their 
 beaks in, and then drew their 
 heads up as birds do when drink- 
 ing; the cow also took a hearty 
 draught. 
 
 After the animals were thus 
 fed, the maiden sat down at table 
 with the old man and ate what 
 was left for her. 
 
THE HOUSE IN THE WOOD. 101 
 
 In a short time the hen and 
 cock began to fold their wings 
 over their heads, and the brin- 
 dled cow blinked with both eyes. 
 Then the maiden asked, "Shall 
 we not also take our rest?" 
 
 The old man replied as before: 
 
 "Pretty Hen, pretty Cock, 
 And pretty brindled Cow, 
 What have yon to say to that?" 
 
 "Cluck, cluck!" replied the ani- 
 mals, meaning, — 
 
 "You have eaten with us, 
 You have drunk, too, with us, 
 You have thought of us kindly, too ; 
 And we wish you a good night's rest." 
 
 So the maiden went down the 
 stairs, and shook up the feather 
 
102 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 beds, and laid on clean sheets, 
 and when they were ready the 
 old man came and lay down in 
 one, with his white beard stretch- 
 ing down to his feet. The girl 
 then lay down in the other bed, 
 saying her prayers before she 
 went to sleep. 
 
 She slept quietly till midnight. 
 At that hour there began such 
 a tumult in the house that it 
 awakened her. Presently there 
 began a cracking and rumbling in 
 every corner of the room, and the 
 doors were slammed back against 
 the wall. 
 
 Then the beams groaned as if 
 
THE HOUSE IN THE WOOD 103 
 
 they were being riven away from 
 their fastenings, and the stairs 
 fell down, and at last it seemed 
 as if the whole roof fell in. Soon 
 after that all was quiet, and the 
 maiden, who was unharmed, went 
 quietly to sleep again. 
 
 When, however, the bright 
 light of the morning sun awoke 
 her, what a sight met her eyes! 
 She found herself lying in a large 
 chamber, with everything around 
 belonging to regal pomp. On the 
 walls were gold flowers growing 
 on a green silk ground; the bed 
 was of ivory, and the curtains of 
 red velvet. On a stool close by 
 
104 
 
 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 was placed a pair of slippers or- 
 namented with pearls. 
 
 
 The maiden thought it was all 
 a dream; but presently in came 
 three servants dressed in rich 
 liveries, who asked her what 
 were her commands. "Leave 
 me," replied the maiden; "I will 
 get up at once and cook some 
 breakfast for the old man, and 
 feed the pretty hen, the pretty 
 cock, and the brindled cow." She 
 
THE HOUSE IN THE WOOD. 105 
 
 spoke thus because she thought 
 the old man was already up; but 
 when she looked round at his bed 
 she saw a young and handsome 
 stranger asleep in it. 
 
 While she was looking at him, 
 he awoke, and starting up, said to 
 the maiden: "I am a King's son, 
 who was long ago changed by a 
 wicked old witch into the form of 
 an old man, and condemned to 
 live in the wood, with nobody to 
 bear me company but my three 
 servants in the form of a hen, a 
 cock, and a brindled cow. 
 
 "The enchantment was not to 
 end until a maiden should come 
 
106 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 who would be kind to my animals 
 as well as to me; and such an 
 one you have been; therefore, at 
 midnight we were saved through 
 you, and the old wooden hut has 
 again become my royal palace." 
 
 When he had thus spoken they 
 arose, and the Prince told his 
 three servants to fetch the father 
 and mother of the maiden, that 
 they also might live in the palace. 
 
 "But where are my two sis- 
 ters?" she asked. "I have put 
 them into the cellar," replied the 
 Prince, "and there they must 
 remain till to-morrow morning, 
 when they shall be led into the 
 
THE HOUSE IN THE WOOD. 107 
 
 forest and bound as servants to 
 a collier. When they have re- 
 formed their tempers, and learned 
 not to let poor animals suffer 
 hunger, they too may live here " 
 
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 THE IRON STOVE. 
 
 In the days when wishing was 
 having, a certain King's son was 
 enchanted by an old witch, and 
 obliged to sit in a great iron stove 
 which stood in a wood! There 
 he passed many years, for nobody 
 could release him. One day a 
 Princess who had lost herself, 
 and could not find her way back 
 
THE IRON STOVE. 109 
 
 to her father's kingdom, came, 
 after nine days' wandering, to 
 the spot where the iron stove 
 stood. 
 
 As she came near it, she heard 
 a voice say, "Whence comest 
 thou, and whither goest thou?" 
 "I have lost the road to my 
 father's kingdom, and am unable 
 to find my home!" she replied. 
 
 "I will help you, and that in a 
 short time," said the voice from 
 the iron stove, "if you will con- 
 sent to what I desire. I am the 
 child of a far greater King than 
 your father, and I am willing to 
 marry you." 
 
110 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 The Princess was frightened at 
 this, and exclaimed, "What can I 
 do with an iron stove?" but, as 
 she was anxious to get home, she 
 consented to follow his directions. 
 
 Then the Prince told her that 
 she might go home, but she must 
 return and bring with her a knife 
 with which to cut a hole in the 
 stove; and then he gave her such 
 minute directions as to her road 
 that in two hours she reached her 
 father's palace. 
 
 There was great joy there 
 when the Princess returned, and 
 the old King fell on her neck and 
 kissed her: but she was sore 
 
THE IRON STOVE. Ill 
 
 troubled, and said, "Alas, my 
 dear father, how things have 
 happened! I should never have 
 got home out of the great wild 
 wood had it not been for an iron 
 stove, which I have promised to 
 marry." 
 
 The King was so frightened 
 when he heard this that he fell 
 into a swoon ; for she was his 
 only daughter. When he recov- 
 ered they resolved that the mil- 
 ler's daughter, a very pretty girl, 
 should take her place; and so she 
 was led to the spot, furnished 
 with a knife, and told to scrape a 
 hole in the iron stove. For four 
 
112 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 and twenty hours she scraped 
 and scraped, without making the 
 least bit of a hole; and when day 
 broke, the voice out of the stove 
 exclaimed, "It seems to me like 
 daylight." 
 
 "Yes," replied the girl, "it 
 seems so to me, too, and me- 
 thinks I hear the clapping of my 
 father's mill." 
 
 "Oh, then, you are the miller's 
 daughter," said the voice again; 
 "well, you may go home and 
 send the Princess to me." 
 
 The girl therefore returned, and 
 told the King the stove would 
 not have her, but demanded 
 
THE IRON STOVE. 113 
 
 his daughter. This frightened 
 the King, and made the Princess 
 weep. But the King had also in 
 his service a swine-herd's daugh- 
 ter, prettier still than the miller's, 
 to whom he offered a piece of 
 gold if she would go to the iron 
 stove instead of the Princess. 
 
 Thereupon this girl went away 
 and scraped for four and twenty 
 hours on the iron without mak- 
 ing any impression. When day 
 broke, a voice in the stove ex- 
 claimed, "It seems to me like 
 daylight." 
 
 "Yes, it is so," said the girl; 
 "for I hear my father's horn." 
 
114 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 "You are, then, the swine- 
 herd's daughter," said the voice; 
 "go back, and tell the Princess 
 who sent you that it must be as I 
 said; and if she does not come to 
 me, everything in the old king- 
 dom shall fall to pieces, and not 
 one stone be left upon another 
 anywhere." 
 
 As soon as the Princess heard 
 this she began to cry; but it was 
 of no use, for her promise must 
 be kept. So she took leave of 
 her father, and, carrying a knife 
 with her, set out towards the iron 
 stove in the wood. As soon as 
 she reached it she began to 
 
THE IRON STOVE. 115 
 
 scrape the iron; and before two 
 hours had passed, she had made 
 a small hole. Through this she 
 peeped, and inside the stove she 
 beheld a handsome Prince, whose 
 dress glittered with gold and 
 precious stones. 
 
 Then she scraped away faster 
 than before, and soon made a 
 hole so large that the Prince 
 could get out. 
 
 " You are mine, and I am thine," 
 he said, as soon as he stood on 
 the earth; "you are my bride, be- 
 cause you have saved me." 
 
 He wanted to take her at once 
 to his father's kingdom; but she 
 
116 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 begged that she might go back to 
 her father to take leave of him. 
 
 The Prince consented to this; 
 but said she must not speak more 
 than three words, and must im- 
 mediately return. 
 
 Thereupon the Princess went 
 home ; but alas ! she said many 
 more than three words; and the 
 iron stove disappeared, and was 
 carried far away over many icy 
 mountains and snowy valleys; 
 but without the Prince, who was 
 no longer shut up in his prison. 
 
 By-and-by the Princess took 
 leave of her father, and, taking a 
 little gold, she went back into 
 
THE IRON STOVE. 117 
 
 the wood and sought for the iron 
 stove, but could find it nowhere. 
 For nine days she searched; and 
 then her hunger became so great 
 that she knew not how to help 
 herself, and thought she must 
 perish. 
 
 When evening came she 
 climbed up a little tree, for she 
 feared the wild beasts which 
 night would bring forth; and just 
 at midnight she saw a little light 
 at a distance. "Ah, there I may 
 find help," thought she; and, get- 
 ting down, she went towards the 
 light, saying a prayer as she 
 walked along. 
 
118 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 She soon came to a little hut, 
 surrounded with grass; and be- 
 fore the door stood a heap of 
 wood. 
 
 "Ah, how came you here?" 
 thought she to herself, as she 
 peeped through the window, and 
 saw nothing but fat, little toads, 
 and a table covered with meat 
 and wine, and dishes made of 
 silver. She took courage and 
 knocked, and a toad exclaimed : 
 
 " Little Toad, with crooked leg, 
 Open quick the door, I beg, 
 And see who stands without." 
 
 As soon as these words were 
 spoken, a little toad came run- 
 
THE IRON STOVE. 119 
 
 ning up and opened the door, 
 and the Princess walked in. 
 They all bade her welcome, and 
 told her to sit down; they then 
 asked her whence she came, and 
 whither she was going. She told 
 the toads that, because she had 
 spoken more than three words, 
 the stove had disappeared as well 
 as the Prince; and now she was 
 about to search over hill and val- 
 ley till she should find him. On 
 hearing this the old toad cried 
 out: 
 
 " Little Toad, with crooked leg, 
 Quickly fetch for me, I beg, 
 The basket hanging on the peg." 
 
120 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 So the little toad brought the 
 basket to the old one, who took 
 meat and milk from it and gave 
 them to the Princess ; and after 
 that he showed her a beautiful 
 bed, made of silk and velvet, in 
 which, under God's protection, 
 she slept soundly. 
 
 As soon as day broke the 
 Princess arose, and the old toad 
 gave her three needles, to take 
 with her, which would be of great 
 use, since she would have to pass 
 over a mountain of glass, three 
 sharp swords, and a big lake, be- 
 fore she would regain her lover. 
 
 The old toad gave her, besides 
 
THE IRON STOVE. 121 
 
 the three needles, a plough-wheel 
 and three nuts. With these the 
 Princess set out on her way, and 
 by-and-by came to the glass 
 mountain, which was so smooth 
 that she used the three needles as 
 steps for her feet, and so reached 
 the top. 
 
 When she came to the other 
 side, she placed the needles in a 
 secure place ; and soon coming to 
 the three swords, she rolled over 
 them by means of her plough- 
 wheel. 
 
 At last she came to a great 
 lake, and when she had passed 
 that, she found herself near a fine 
 
 
122 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 large castle that belonged to her 
 lost Prince. She entered, and 
 offered herself as a servant, say- 
 ing she was a poor girl, who had 
 rescued a King's son from an iron 
 stove which stood in the forest. 
 
 After some delay she was hired 
 as a kitchen-maid at very small 
 wages, and soon found out that 
 the Prince was going to marry 
 another lady, because he supposed 
 his former favorite was dead. 
 
 One evening, when she had 
 washed and made herself neat, 
 she felt in her pocket and found 
 the three nuts which the old toad 
 had given her. One of them she 
 
THE IRON STOVE. 123 
 
 cracked, and in it found a fine 
 royal dress instead of a kernel. 
 The bride said she must have it, 
 for it was no dress for a servant- 
 maid. But the Princess said she 
 would sell it only on condition 
 that she might be allowed to pass 
 a night by the chamber of the 
 Prince. 
 
 This request was granted, be- 
 cause the bride was anxious to 
 have the dress, which was more 
 beautiful than any of her own. 
 When evening came she told her 
 lover that the silly girl wanted to 
 pass the night near his room. 
 
 "If you are contented, so am 
 
124 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 I," he replied; but she gave him 
 a glass of wine, into which she 
 put a sleeping draught. In con- 
 sequence, he slept so soundly that 
 the poor Princess could not wake 
 him, although she cried the whole 
 night, and kept repeating, "I 
 saved you in the wild forest, and 
 released you from the iron stove; 
 I have sought you, and I traveled 
 over a mountain of glass, and 
 over three sharp swords, and 
 across a wide lake, before I found 
 you; and still you will not hear 
 me ! " 
 
 The servants, however, who 
 slept in the ante-room, heard the 
 
THE IRON STOVE. 125 
 
 complaint, and told the King of 
 it the following morning. 
 
 That evening, after the Prin- 
 cess had washed herself, she 
 cracked the second nut and found 
 in it a dress more beautiful than 
 the other, and the bride declared 
 she must have it also. But it 
 was not to be purchased except 
 on the same condition as the first; 
 and the Prince again allowed her 
 to sleep near his door. 
 
 The bride, however, gave the 
 Prince another sleeping draught, 
 and he slept too soundly to hear 
 the poor Princess crying as be- 
 fore: "I saved you in the wild 
 
126 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 forest, and released you from the 
 iron stove; I have sought you, 
 and I traveled over a mountain 
 of glass, and over three sharp 
 swords, and across a wide lake, 
 before I found you; and still you 
 will not hear me ! " 
 
 The servants, however, in the 
 ante-room, heard the crying again, 
 and told the Prince of it the next 
 morning. 
 
 On the evening of that day the 
 poor maid broke her third nut, 
 and produced a dress starred with 
 gold, which the bride declared 
 she must have at any price; and 
 the maid begged for the same 
 
THE I ROM STOVE. 127 
 
 privilege as before. This time the 
 Prince threw away the sleeping 
 draught, and, therefore when the 
 Princess began to cry, "Alas! my 
 dear treasure, have you forgotten 
 how I saved you in the great, 
 wild wood, and released you from 
 the iron stove?" the Prince heard 
 her, and, jumping up, exclaimed: 
 "You are right; I am thine, and 
 you are mine." 
 
 Thereupon, while it was yet 
 night, he got into a carriage 
 with the Princess, first hiding 
 the clothes of the false bride, 
 that she might not follow them. 
 When they came to the lake 
 
128 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 they rowed over very quickly, 
 and passed the three sharp 
 swords again by means of the 
 plough-wheel. Soon they crossed 
 the glass mountain by the aid 
 of the three needles, and arrived 
 at last at the little old house, 
 which, as soon as they entered, 
 was changed into a noble castle. 
 
 At the same moment all the 
 toads were disenchanted and re- 
 turned to their natural shapes, for 
 they were the sons of the King of 
 the country. 
 
 So the wedding took place, and 
 the Prince and Princess remained 
 for some time in his castle. 
 
THE IRON STOVE. 
 
 129 
 
 However, because the old King 
 grieved at his daughter's con- 
 tinued absence, they went to 
 live with him, and joining the 
 government of the two kingdoms 
 in one, they reigned many years 
 in happiness and prosperity. 
 
SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED. 
 
 There was once a poor widow, 
 who lived all alone in a lint 
 with her two children, who were 
 called Snow- White and Rose-Bed, 
 because they were like the flowers 
 which bloomed on two rose- 
 bushes that grew before the door. 
 They were two as pious, good, 
 industrious, and amiable children 
 as any in the world. Snow- 
 White was more quiet and gentle 
 than Rose-Red for Rose-Red would 
 run and jump about the meadows, 
 seeking flowers, and catching but- 
 
SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED. 131 
 
 terflies, while Snow- White sat at 
 home helping her mother to keep 
 house, or reading to her, if there 
 were nothing else to do. 
 
 The two children loved each 
 other dearly, and always walked 
 hand-in-hand when they went out 
 together; and ever when they 
 talked of it, they agreed that 
 they would never separate from 
 each other, and that whatever 
 one had the other should share. 
 
 They often ran deep into the 
 forest and gathered wild berries, 
 but no beast ever harmed them. 
 The hare would eat grass out of 
 their hands, the fawn would 
 
132 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 graze at their side, the goats 
 would frisk about them in play, 
 and the birds remained perched 
 on the boughs singing as if no- 
 body were near. 
 
 No accident eyer befell them ; 
 and if they stayed late in the 
 forest, and night came upon 
 them, they used to lie down on 
 the moss and sleep till morning. 
 Because their mother knew they 
 would do so, she felt no concern 
 about them. 
 
 One time, they had thus passed 
 the night in the forest, and when 
 the dawn of morning awoke them, 
 they saw a beautiful child, dressed 
 
SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED. 133 
 
 in shining white, sitting near their 
 couch. She got up and looked at 
 them kindly, but without saying 
 anything went into the forest. 
 When the children looked round 
 they saw that they had slept close 
 to the edge of a pit, into which 
 they would have fallen had they 
 walked a step further in the dark. 
 
 Their mother told them the 
 figure they had seen was, doubt- 
 less, the good angel who watches 
 over children. 
 
 Snow-White and Eose-Eed kept 
 their mother's cottage so clean 
 that it was a pleasure to enter it. 
 Every morning in the summer- 
 
134 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 time Rose-Red would first put the 
 house in order, and then gather a 
 nosegay for her mother, in which 
 she always placed a bud from 
 each rose-tree. Everv winter's 
 morning Snow- White would light 
 the fire and put the kettle on to 
 boil, and although the kettle was 
 made of copper, it shone like gold, 
 because it was so well scoured. 
 
 In the evenings, when the 
 flakes of snow were falling, the 
 mother would say, "Go, Snow- 
 White, and bolt the door"; and 
 then they used to sit down on 
 the hearth, and the mother would 
 put on her spectacles and read 
 
SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED. 135 
 
 out of a great book, while her 
 children sat spinning. By their 
 side, too, lay a little lamb, and 
 on a perch behind them a little 
 white doye rested with her head 
 under her wing. 
 
 One evening when they were 
 thus sitting together, there came a 
 knock at the door, as if somebody 
 wished to come in. "Make haste, 
 Rose-Red," cried her mother; 
 "make haste and open the door; 
 perhaps there is some traveler 
 outside who needs shelter." So 
 Rose-Red drew the bolt and 
 opened the door, expecting to see 
 some poor man outside; but ill- 
 
136 
 
 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 stead a great fat bear poked his 
 black head in. 
 
 Rose-Red shrieked and ran back, 
 the little lamb bleated, the dove 
 fluttered on her perch, and Snow- 
 White hid herself behind her 
 mother's bed. The bear, however, 
 began to speak, and said, "Be not 
 afraid, I will do you no harm; but 
 
SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED. 137 
 
 I am half frozen, and I wish to 
 come in and warm myself." 
 
 "Poor bear!" cried the mother; 
 "come in and lie down before the 
 fire; but take care you do not 
 burn your skin"; and then she 
 said: "Come here, Eose-Eed and 
 Snow- White, the bear will not 
 harm you." So they both came 
 back, and by degrees the lamb 
 and the dove overcame their 
 fears and welcomed the rough 
 visitor. 
 
 "You, children," said the bear, 
 before he entered, "come and 
 knock the snow off my coat." 
 Then they took their brooms 
 
138 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 and swept him clean, and he 
 stretched himself before the fire 
 and grumbled out his satisfaction. 
 
 In a little while the children 
 became familiar enough to play 
 tricks with the unwieldy animal. 
 They pulled his long, shaggy skin, 
 set their feet upon his back and 
 rolled him to and fro, and even 
 ventured to beat him with a hazel- 
 stick, laughing when he grumbled. 
 
 The bear bore all their tricks 
 with good temper, and if they hit 
 too hard he cried out: 
 
 "Leave me my life, you children, 
 Snow-White and Rose-Red, 
 Or you'll never wed." 
 

 SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED. 139 
 
 When bed-time came and the 
 others were gone, the mother 
 said to the bear: "You may sleep 
 here on the hearth if you like, 
 and then you will be safely pro- 
 tected from the cold and bad 
 weather." 
 
 As soon as day broke the two 
 children let the bear out and 
 he trotted away over the snow. 
 Afterwards he came every even- 
 ing at a certain hour. He would 
 lie down on the hearth and allow 
 the children to play with him as 
 much as they liked, till by de- 
 grees they became so accustomed 
 to him, that the door was left 
 
140 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 unbolted till their black friend 
 arrived. 
 
 But as soon as spring returned, 
 and everything out of doors was 
 green again, the bear one morn- 
 ing told Snow- White that he 
 must leave her, and could not 
 return during the whole summer. 
 
 "Where are you going, then, 
 dear bear?" asked Snow- White. 
 
 "I am obliged to go into the 
 forest and guard my treasures 
 from the evil dwarfs; for in 
 winter, when the ground is hard, 
 they are obliged to keep in their 
 holes, and cannot work through; 
 but now, since the sun has thawed 
 
SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE -RED. 141 
 
 the earth and warmed it, the 
 dwarfs pierce through and steal all 
 they can find; and what has once 
 passed into their hands, and gets 
 concealed by them in their caves, 
 is not easily brought to light." 
 
 Snow- White, however, was very 
 sad at the departure of the bear, 
 and opened the door so hesi- 
 tatingly that when he pressed 
 through it he left behind on the 
 latch a piece of his hairy coat, 
 and through the hole which was 
 made in his coat Snow -White 
 fancied she saw the glittering of 
 gold, but she was not quite certain 
 of it. The bear, however, ran 
 
142 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 hastily away, and was soon hiddej i 
 behind the trees. 
 
 Some time afterwards the 
 mother sent her children into the 
 wood to gather sticks. On the 
 way they came to a tree lying 
 across the path, on the trunk of 
 which something kept bobbing 
 up and down, and they could not 
 imagine what it was. 
 
 When they came nearer they 
 saw it was a dwarf with an old 
 wrinkled face and a snow-white 
 beard a yard long. The end of 
 this beard was fixed in a slit of 
 the tree, and the little man kept 
 jumping about like a dog tied by 
 
SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED. 143 
 
 a chain, for he did not know how 
 to free himself. 
 
 He glared at the maidens with 
 his red, fiery eyes, and exclaimed, 
 "Why do you stand there? Are 
 you going to pass without offer- 
 ing me any assistance?" 
 
 "What have you done, little 
 man?" asked Rose-Red. 
 
 "You stupid, gazing goose!" 
 exclaimed he, "I wanted to split 
 the tree in order to get a little 
 wood for my kitchen. 
 
 "I drove the wedge in proper- 
 ly, and everything was going on 
 well, when the smooth wood flew 
 upwards and the tree closed so 
 
144 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 suddenly together that I could 
 not draw out my beautiful beard, 
 and here it sticks, and I cannot 
 get away. There, don't laugh, 
 you milk-faced things! Are you 
 dumfouncled?" 
 
 The children took all the pains 
 they could to pull the dwarf's 
 beard out, but without success. 
 "I will run and fetch some help," 
 cried Rose-Red at length. 
 
 " Crack - brained sheep's - head 
 that you are ! " snarled the dwarf; 
 "what are you going to call other 
 people for? You are two too 
 many, now, for me ; can you think 
 of nothing else?" 
 
SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED. 145 
 
 "Don't be impatient," replied 
 Snow- White, "I have thought of 
 something"; and, pulling her 
 scissors out of her pocket, she 
 cut off the end of the beard. As 
 soon as the dwarf found himself 
 at liberty he snatched up a sack 
 of gold, which lay between the 
 roots of the tree, and, throwing 
 it over his shoulder, marched off, 
 grumbling, groaning, and crying, 
 "Stupid people! to cut off a piece 
 of my beautiful beard. Plague take 
 you!" and away he went without 
 once looking at the children. 
 
 Some time afterwards Snow- 
 White and Rose-Red went fishing, 
 
146 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 and as they neared the pond they 
 saw something like a great locust 
 hopping about on the bank, as 
 if going to jump into the water. 
 They ran up and recognized the 
 dwarf. 
 
 "What are you after?" asked 
 Rose-Red; "you will fall into the 
 water." 
 
 "I am not quite such a simple- 
 ton as that," replied the dwarf; 
 "but do you not see this fish will 
 pull me in?" 
 
 The little man had been sitting 
 there angling, and, unfortunately, 
 the wind had entangled his beard 
 with the fishing-line; and so, when 
 
SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED. 147 
 
 a great fish bit at the bait, the 
 weak little fellow was not able to 
 draw it out, and the fish had the 
 best of the struggle. The dwarf 
 held on by the reeds and rushes 
 which grew near, but to no pur- 
 pose, for the fish pulled him 
 where it liked, and he must soon 
 have been drawn into the pond. 
 
 Luckily, just then the two 
 maidens arrived, and tried to 
 release the beard of the dwarf 
 from the fishing-line, but it was 
 so entangled that they could not 
 get it loose. So one of the 
 maidens pulled out her scissors 
 again and cut off another piece 
 
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 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 of the beard. When the dwarf 
 saw this done he flew into a 
 great rage, and exclaimed, "Yon 
 donkey! that is the way to dis- 
 figure my face! Was it not 
 
 enough to cut it once, but you 
 must now take away the best 
 part of my fine beard ? I dare not 
 show myself now to my own 
 people. I wish you had run the 
 soles off your boots before you 
 
SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED. 149 
 
 had come here!" So saying, he 
 took up a bag of pearls which lay 
 among the rushes, and, without 
 speaking another word, slipped 
 off and disappeared behind a 
 stone. 
 
 Not many days after this the 
 mother sent the two maidens to 
 the next town to buy thread, 
 needles, pins, laces, and ribbons. 
 Their road passed over a common 
 strewn with rocks. Just over 
 their heads they saw a great bird 
 flying round and round, and every 
 now and then dropping lower and 
 lower, till at last it flew down 
 behind a rock. 
 
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 Immediately afterwards they 
 heard a piercing shriek, and, run- 
 ning up, they saw with affright 
 that the eagle had caught their 
 old acquaintance, the dwarf, and 
 was trying to carry him off. 
 
 The compassionate children 
 thereupon laid hold of the little 
 man and held him fast till the 
 bird gave up the struggle and 
 flew off. As soon as the dwarf 
 had recovered from his fright, he 
 exclaimed in his squeaking voice : 
 "Could you not hold me more 
 gently? You have seized my fine 
 brown coat in such a manner that 
 it is all torn and full of holes, 
 
SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED. 151 
 
 meddling rubbish that you are!" 
 With these words he shouldered 
 a bag filled with precious stones 
 and slipped away to his cave 
 among the rocks. 
 
 The maidens were now accus- 
 tomed to his ingratitude and they 
 walked on to the town. Going 
 home they passed over the same 
 common, and, unawares, walked 
 up to a clean spot on which the 
 dwarf had shaken out his bag of 
 precious stones, thinking nobody 
 was near. 
 
 The sun was shining, and the 
 bright stones glittered in its 
 beams, displaying such a variety 
 
152 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 of colors that the two maidens 
 stopped to admire them. 
 
 "What are you standing there 
 gaping for?" asked the dwarf, 
 while his face grew as red as 
 copper with rage. He was still 
 abusing the poor maidens, when 
 a loud roaring was heard, and a 
 great black bear came rolling out 
 of the forest. 
 
 The dwarf jumped up in terror, 
 but he could not gain his hiding- 
 place before the bear overtook 
 him. Thereupon he cried out: 
 "Spare me, my dear Lord Bear! 
 I will giye you all my treasures. 
 See these beautiful precious stones 
 
SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED. 153 
 
 which lie here. Only give me 
 my life; for what have you to 
 fear from a little weak fellow like 
 me? You could not touch me 
 with your big teeth. There are 
 two wicked girls, take them; they 
 would make nice morsels; as 
 fat as young quails; eat them, 
 I beg!" 
 
 The bear, however, without 
 troubling himself to speak, gave 
 the bad-hearted dwarf a single 
 blow with his paw, and he never 
 stirred again. 
 
 The maidens were going to run 
 away, but the bear called to them, 
 " Snow- White and Rose-Red, fear 
 
154 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 not! Wait a bit, and I will go 
 with you." They knew his voice 
 and stopped; and as the bear 
 approached them, his rough coat 
 suddenly fell off, and he stood up 
 a tall man, dressed entirely in 
 gold. 
 
 "I am a King's son," he said, 
 "and was condemned by that 
 wicked dwarf to wander about in 
 this forest in the form of a bear 
 till his death released me. He 
 also stole all my treasures. Now 
 he has his punishment." 
 
 Then they went home, and 
 Snow- White was married to the 
 Prince, and Rose -Red to his 
 
SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED. 155 
 
 brother. The mother lived hap- 
 pily for many years with her two 
 children; and the rose-trees which 
 had stood before the cottage were 
 planted near the palace, and every 
 year produced beautiful red and 
 white roses. 
 
THE TWO BROTHERS. 
 
 Once upon a time there were 
 two brothers, one rich and the 
 other poor. The rich man was a 
 goldsmith, who was selfish, but 
 the poor brother, who mended 
 brooms, was honest and pious. 
 The poor man had two children, 
 — twins, as like one another as 
 two drops of water, — who used 
 often to go to their rich uncle's 
 house, where the cook would give 
 them a dinner from pieces left by 
 her master. 
 
 One day when the broom- 
 
THE TWO BROTHERS. 157 
 
 mender went into the woods for 
 .wigs he saw a bird of gold, 
 vhich was more beautiful than 
 any bird he had ever before seen. 
 He picked up a stone and flung it 
 at the bird, and hit it, but with 
 so little force that only a single 
 feather dropped off. This feather 
 he took to his brother, who looked 
 at it and said, "It is of pure gold! 
 I will give you a good sum of 
 money for it." 
 
 The next day he climbed up a 
 birch tree to lop off 4 a bough or 
 two, when the same bird flew out 
 of the branches, and, as he looked 
 round, he found a nest with an 
 
158 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 egg in it, and the egg was of 
 pure gold. This he took to his 
 brother, who gave him what it 
 was worth, but said he must have 
 the bird itself. 
 
 For the third time, now, the 
 brother went into the forest, and 
 again saw the golden bird sitting 
 upon a tree: taking up a stone, 
 he threw it and killed the bird, 
 which he took to his brother, 
 and received a large pile of gold 
 for it. With this the man went 
 home with a light heart. 
 
 The goldsmith was crafty, and 
 knew very well what sort of a 
 bird it was. He called his Avife 
 
THE TWO BROTHERS. 159 
 
 and said to her: " Roast this bird 
 for me, and take care of whatever 
 falls from it, for I have a mind to 
 eat it by myself." Now, the bird 
 was not a common one, for it was 
 said that if any one should eat its 
 heart and liver he would find a 
 gold piece under his pillow every 
 morning. 
 
 The wife made the bird ready, 
 and, putting it on a spit, set it 
 down to roast. Now, while it 
 was on the fire the two children 
 of the poor broom-mender ran in, 
 and two little tidbits fell out of 
 the bird into the pan. These 
 the goldsmith's wife gave to the 
 
160 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 children, not knowing their magic 
 powers, but, in order that her 
 husband might not miss them and 
 fly in a passion, she quickly killed 
 a little chicken, and, taking out 
 its liver and heart, put them in- 
 side the golden bird. 
 
 As soon as the bird was done 
 she carried it to the goldsmith, 
 who ate it quite alone, and left 
 nothing at all on the plate. The 
 next morning, however, when he 
 looked under his pillow to find 
 the gold pieces, there was not the 
 smallest one to be seen. 
 
 The two children did not know 
 what good luck had fallen on 
 
THE TWO BROTHERS. 161 
 
 them, but when they got up the 
 next morning, two gold pieces fell 
 ringing on the ground. These 
 they took to their father, who 
 hardly knew what he should do 
 with them; but as the next morn- 
 ing the same thing happened, and 
 so on every day, he went to his 
 brother and told him the whole 
 story. 
 
 The goldsmith knew at once 
 that the children had eaten the 
 heart and liver of his bird, and in 
 order to avenge himself, and be- 
 cause he was so hard-hearted, he 
 told the father that his children 
 were in league with evil spirits, 
 
162 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 and warned him not to take the 
 gold, but to turn the children out 
 of the house, for he said the Evil 
 One had them in his power, and 
 would make them do some mis- 
 chief. Their father feared the 
 Evil One, and, although it cost 
 him a sharp pang, he led his 
 children out to the forest and 
 with a sad heart left them there. 
 
 The two children ran about the 
 wood seeking the road home, but 
 they could not find it. At last 
 they met a huntsman, who asked 
 who they were. 
 
 "We are the children of the 
 poor broom-mender,' 1 they replied, 
 
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 "our father could no longer 
 keep us at home, because a gold 
 piece lay under our pillows every 
 morning." 
 
 "Well," replied the huntsman, 
 "that does not seem right, if you 
 are honest and not idle." 
 
 The good man, having no 
 children of his own, took the 
 twins home with him, because 
 they pleased him, and told them 
 he would be their father and 
 bring them up. With him they 
 learned all kinds of hunting, and 
 the gold pieces which they found 
 each morning they laid aside 
 against a rainy day. 
 
164 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 When they became young men 
 the huntsman took them into the 
 forest, and said: " To-day you 
 must show me how well you can 
 shoot, that I may make you free 
 huntsmen like myself." 
 
 So they went with him, and 
 waited a long time, but no wild 
 beast came. At last the hunts- 
 man, looking up, saw a flock of 
 wild geese flying over in the form 
 of a triangle. 
 
 " Shoot one from each corner," 
 said he to the twins. When they 
 had done this, another flock came 
 flying over in the form of a figure 
 two, and from these they were 
 
THE TWO BROTHERS. 165 
 
 also bidden to shoot one at each 
 corner. When they had done 
 this, their foster-father said, "I 
 now make you free." 
 
 Then the two brothers went 
 together into the forest to plan 
 what they would do, and when 
 at evening-time they sat down to 
 their meal, they said to their 
 foster-father, "We shall not touch 
 the least morsel of food till you 
 have granted our request." 
 
 He asked them what it was, 
 and they replied : 
 
 "We have now learned every- 
 thing you can teach us: let us go 
 into the world and see what we 
 
166 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 can do there, and let us set out at 
 once." 
 
 "You have spoken like brave 
 huntsmen," cried the old man 
 with joy; "What you have asked 
 is just what I wished. You can 
 set out as soon as you like, for 
 you will succeed." 
 
 Then they ate together once 
 more in great joy. 
 
 When the day came for them 
 to go, the old huntsman gave to 
 each youth a good rifle and a dog, 
 and let them take from the gold 
 pieces as many as they liked. 
 Then he went with them a part 
 of their way, and at parting he 
 
THE TWO BROTHERS. 167 
 
 gave them a knife, saying, "If 
 one of you should ever be lost, 
 stick this knife in a tree by the 
 roadside, and then, if the other 
 returns to the same point, he can 
 tell how his brother fares; for the 
 side upon which there is a mark, 
 will rust if he dies; but as long 
 as he lives it will be as bright as 
 ever." 
 
 The two brothers now went on 
 till they came to a forest so large 
 that they could not get out of it 
 in one day. There they passed 
 the night, and ate what they had 
 in their hunters' pockets. The 
 second day they again walked on, 
 
168 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 but found no opening, and haying 
 
 nothing to eat, one said, "We 
 
 must shoot something or we shall 
 
 die of hunger"; and he loaded 
 
 his gun and looked around. Just 
 
 then an old hare came running 
 
 up, at which he aimed, but it 
 
 cried out: 
 
 "Dear Huntsman, pray now let me live, 
 And I will two young lev'rets give." 
 
 So saying, it ran back into the 
 brushwood and brought out two 
 hares, which played about so 
 prettily that the hunters could 
 not make up their minds to kill 
 them. So they took them with 
 them. 
 

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 Presently a fox came up, and, 
 
 as they were about to shoot it, 
 
 he cried out: 
 
 "Dear Hunters, pray now let me live, 
 And I will two young foxes give." 
 
 These it brought, and the brothers, 
 
 instead of killing them, put them 
 
 with the young hares, and all four 
 
 followed. 
 
 In a little while a wolf came 
 
 out of the brushwood, at which 
 
 the hunters also aimed, but like 
 
 the others it cried out: 
 
 "Dear Hunters, pray now let me live; 
 Two young ones, in return, I'll give." 
 
 The hunters placed the two 
 wolves with the other animals, 
 
170 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 who still followed them. Soon 
 they met a bear, who also begged 
 for his life, saying: 
 
 "Dear Hunters, pray now let me live; 
 Two young ones, in return, I'll give." 
 
 These two bears w T ere added 
 to the others, which made eight 
 animals. And now who came 
 last? A lion shaking his mane. 
 The two brothers were not afraid, 
 but aimed at him, and he cried: 
 
 "Dear Hunters, pray now let me live ; 
 Two young ones, in return, I'll give." 
 
 The lion then brought his two 
 young ones, and now the hunts- 
 men had two lions, two bears, 
 two wolves, two foxes, and two 
 
THE TWO BROTHERS. 171 
 
 hares following and waiting upon 
 them. But the brothers were 
 hungry, haying eaten nothing, 
 and they said to the foxes, "You 
 get us something to eat, for you 
 are both sly and crafty." 
 
 The foxes replied: "Not far 
 from here lies a village, where 
 we can get many fowls, and we 
 will show you the way there." 
 
 So they went into the village 
 and bought something to eat for 
 themselves and their animals, 
 and then went on, for the foxes 
 knew where the hen-roosts were, 
 and could direct the huntsmen 
 well. 
 
172 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 They walked on without finding 
 any place where they could live 
 together; so they said to one 
 another, "Let us go apart." The 
 two brothers therefore divided the 
 beasts, each taking a lion, a bear, 
 a wolf, a fox, and a hare. Then 
 they said good-by, promising to 
 love each other till death. The 
 knife which their foster-father 
 gave them they stuck in a tree, 
 so that one side pointed to the 
 east and the other to the west. 
 
 The younger brother with his 
 animals came to a town which 
 was hung with black crape. He 
 went into an inn and asked if he 
 
THE TWO BROTHERS. 173 
 
 could lodge his beasts, and the 
 landlord gave him a stable. In 
 the wall was a hole through which 
 the hare crept and took a cabbage ; 
 the fox caught himself a hen; but 
 the lion, the bear, and the wolf, 
 being too big for the hole, could 
 get nothing. 
 
 The master made the host fetch 
 an ox for them, on which they 
 feasted merrily, and then, having 
 cared for his beasts, he asked the 
 landlord why the town was all 
 hung in mourning. The land- 
 lord replied, it was because the 
 next day the King's only daughter 
 was to die. 
 
174 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 "Is she, then, sick unto death?" 
 inquired the huntsman. 
 
 "No," replied the other, "she 
 is well enough; but still she must 
 die." 
 
 "How is that?" asked the 
 huntsman. 
 
 "Out there before the town," 
 said the landlord, "is a high 
 mountain on which lives a dragon, 
 who, every year, demands the 
 sacrifice of a pure maiden. Should 
 the King refuse, the monster would 
 lay waste all the country. Now all 
 the maidens have been given up, 
 until there is but one left, the 
 King's daughter, who must die, for 
 
THE TWO BROTHERS. 175 
 
 there is no other way, and to- 
 morrow morning it is to happen." 
 
 The huntsman asked, "Why 
 does no one kill the dragon?" 
 
 "Ah!" replied the landlord, 
 "many knights have tried, but 
 every one has lost his life. The 
 King has promised his daughter 
 and, after his death, his kingdom 
 to any one who will kill this 
 dragon." 
 
 The huntsman said nothing 
 further at that time, but the next 
 morning, taking with him his 
 beasts, he climbed the dragon's 
 mountain. 
 
 A little way up stood a chapel, 
 
176 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 and upon an altar were three 
 cups, and by them was written, 
 "Whoever drinks the contents of 
 these cups will be the strongest 
 man on earth, and may take the 
 sword which lies buried beneath 
 the threshold." 
 
 Without drinking, the hunts- 
 man sought and found the sword 
 in the ground, but he could not 
 move it from its place; so he 
 drank out of the cups, and then 
 he easily pulled out the sword, 
 and was so strong that he waved 
 it about like a feather. 
 
 When the hour came at which 
 the maiden should be given over 
 
THE TWO BROTHERS. 177 
 
 to the dragon, the King and all 
 his court went with her. From 
 a distance they saw the huntsman 
 upon the mountain, and took him 
 for the dragon waiting for them, 
 and so dared not ascend; but at 
 last, because the whole city must 
 otherwise have been killed, the 
 Princess made the dreadful ascent 
 alone. The King and his men 
 went home full of grief, but the 
 Marshal had to stop and watch it 
 all from a distance. 
 
 When the King's daughter 
 reached the top of the hill she 
 found the young hunter there 
 instead of the dragon. The 
 
178 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 hunter said he would save her, 
 and, leading her into the chapel, 
 shut her up in it. In a short 
 time the seven-headed dragon 
 came up roaring with an awful 
 noise, but when he saw the hunter 
 he was afraid and asked, "What 
 do you here on my mountain?" 
 
 The hunter replied that he 
 came to fight him, and the dragon 
 said, breathing out fire from his 
 seven jaws as he spoke, "Many a 
 knight has already left his life 
 behind him, and you I will soon 
 kill as dead as they." 
 
 The fire from his throat set the 
 grass in a blaze, and the smoke 
 
THE TWO BROTHERS. 179 
 
 would have choked the hunter 
 had not his beasts come running 
 up and stamped it out. 
 
 Then the dragon made a dart 
 at the hunter, but he swung his 
 sword round so that it whistled 
 in the air, and cut off three of the 
 beast's heads. The dragon now 
 became furious and raised himself 
 in the air, spitting out fire over 
 his enemy, trying in every way to 
 overthrow him; but the hunter, 
 springing on one side, raised his 
 sword again, and cut off three 
 more of his heads. 
 
 The beast was half killed with 
 this, and sank down, but tried 
 
180 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 once more to catch the hunter, 
 who beat him off, and, with his 
 last strength, cut off the dragon's 
 tail; and then being unable to 
 fight longer, he called his beasts, 
 who came and tore the dragon to 
 pieces. 
 
 As soon as the battle was over, 
 the hunter unlocked the chapel, 
 where he found the Princess lying 
 on the floor. She had fainted 
 with terror while the contest was 
 going on. The hunter carried her 
 out, and when she came to herself 
 and opened her eyes, he showed 
 her the dragon torn to pieces, and 
 said she was now safe forever. 
 
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 The sight made her quite happy, 
 and she said, "Now you will be 
 my husband, for my father has 
 promised me to him who should 
 kill the dragon." 
 
 So saying, she took off her 
 necklace of coral and divided it 
 among the beasts for a reward, 
 the lion having the gold snap for 
 his share. But her handkerchief, 
 on which her name was marked, 
 she presented to the huntsman, 
 who cut the tongues from the 
 dragon's seven mouths, and, wrap- 
 ping them in the handkerchief, 
 kept them with great care. 
 
 All this being done, the hunter 
 
182 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 felt so wearied by the battle with 
 the dragon and the fire, that he 
 said to the Princess, " Since we 
 are both so tired, let us sleep 
 awhile." They lay down on the 
 ground, and the hunter bade the 
 lion watch them. 
 
 Soon they were sound asleep, 
 and the lion, who was also weary 
 with fighting, said to the bear, 
 u Do you lie down near me, for I 
 must sleep a bit; but wake me 
 if any one comes." So the bear 
 did as he was bidden, but soon 
 getting tired, he asked the wolf 
 to watch for him. Before long 
 the wolf called the fox, and 
 
THE TWO BROTHERS. 183 
 
 said, "Do watch for me a little 
 while, I want to have a nap, 
 and you can call me if any one 
 comes." 
 
 The fox lay down by his side, 
 but soon felt so tired himself that 
 he called the hare, and asked him 
 to take his place and watch while 
 he slept a little. The hare came, 
 and lying down too, soon felt very 
 sleepy; but he had no one to call 
 in his place, and he soon fell 
 asleep and began to snore. Here, 
 then, were sleeping, the Princess, 
 the huntsman, the lion, the bear, 
 the wolf, the fox, and the hare; 
 and all were very sound asleep. 
 
184 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 The Marshal, who had been set 
 to watch below, had not seen the 
 dragon fly away with the Prin- 
 cess, and all seemed so very quiet 
 that he took heart, and climbed 
 the mountain. 
 
 There lay the dragon on the 
 ground, torn to pieces, and not 
 far off, the King's daughter, and 
 a huntsman with his beasts, all in 
 a deep sleep. Now the Marshal 
 was very wicked, and, taking his 
 sword, he cut off the head of the 
 huntsman, and taking the maiden 
 under his arm, carried her down 
 the mountain. At this she awoke 
 in great fright, and the Marshal 
 
THE TWO BROTHERS. 185 
 
 cried to her, "You are in my 
 hands; you must say that it was 
 I who killed the dragon." 
 
 "That I cannot," she replied, 
 "for a hunter and his animals did 
 it." Then he drew his sword and 
 told her he would kill her if she 
 did not obey. He then brought 
 her before the King, who went 
 almost beside himself with joy at 
 again seeing his dear daughter, 
 who, he thought, had been torn to 
 pieces by the monster. 
 
 The Marshal told the King 
 that he had killed the dragon and 
 freed the Princess and the whole 
 kingdom, and he must have her 
 
186 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 for a wife, as it had been 
 promised. The King asked his 
 daughter if it were true. "Ah, 
 yes," she replied, "it must be so; 
 but the wedding shall not take 
 place for a year and a day." For 
 she thought to herself that per- 
 haps in that time she might hear 
 some news of her dear huntsman. 
 On the dragon's mountain the 
 animals still lay asleep beside 
 their dead master, when a great 
 bee came and settled on the 
 hare's nose, but he lifted his paw 
 and brushed it off. The bee came 
 a second time, but the hare 
 brushed it off again, and went to 
 
THE TWO BROTHERS. 187 
 
 sleep. For the third time the 
 bee settled, and stung the hare's 
 nose so that he woke. As soon 
 as he had risen and shaken him- 
 self he awoke the fox, and the fox 
 awoke the wolf, the wolf awoke 
 the bear, and the bear awoke the 
 lion. 
 
 As soon as the lion got up and 
 saw that the maiden was gone 
 and his dear master dead, he be- 
 gan to roar fearfully, and asked, 
 "Who has done this? Bear, why 
 did you not wake me ? " The bear 
 asked the wolf, "Why did you 
 not wake me?" The wolf asked 
 the fox, "Why did you not wake 
 
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 me?" and the fox asked the hare, 
 "Why did you not wake me?" 
 The poor hare alone had nothing 
 to answer, and the blame was 
 laid upon him. The others 
 would have fallen upon him, but 
 he begged for his life, saying, 
 "Do not kill me and I will 
 restore our dear master to life. [ 
 know a hill where grows a root 
 that will heal all diseases and 
 wounds. But this hill lies two 
 hundred hours 5 journey from here." 
 The lion said, "You must go 
 and return in four and twenty 
 hours, bringing the root with 
 you." 
 
THE TWO BROTHERS. 189 
 
 The hare ran off and in four 
 and twenty hours came back with 
 the root in his mouth. Now the 
 lion put the huntsman's head 
 again to his body, while the hare 
 applied the root to the wound; 
 and the huntsman began to 
 revive, his heart beat, and life 
 returned. 
 
 The huntsman now awoke, and 
 seeing that the maiden was no 
 longer with him, he thought to 
 himself, "While I slept, perhaps 
 she ran away to get rid of me." 
 
 In his haste the lion had set 
 his master's head on the wrong; 
 way; but the hunter, thinking so 
 
190 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 much about the Princess, did not 
 find it out till mid-day, when he 
 wanted to eat. Then, when he 
 wished to help himself, he found 
 his head was turned to his back, 
 and he asked the animals what 
 had happened to him in his sleep. 
 The lion told him that from 
 weariness they had all gone to 
 sleep, and when they awoke they 
 found him dead, with his head 
 cut off; that the hare had fetched 
 the life-root, but in his great 
 haste he had turned his master's 
 head the wrong way, but that he 
 would make it all right again in 
 no time. So saying, he cut off 
 
THE TWO BROTHERS. 191 
 
 the huntsman's head and turned 
 it round, while the hare healed 
 the wound with the root. 
 
 After this the hunter became 
 very dull, and went about from 
 place to place letting his animals 
 dance to the people for show. 
 After a year's time he came again 
 into the same town where he 
 had saved the Princess from the 
 dragon, and this time it was hung 
 all over with scarlet cloth. He 
 asked the landlord of the inn, 
 "What means this? A year ago 
 the city was hung with black 
 crape, and to-day it is all in red ! '' 
 The landlord replied, "A year 
 
192 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 ago our King's daughter was 
 given to the dragon, but our 
 Marshal fought with it and slew 
 it, and this day they are to be 
 married ; before, the town was 
 hung with crape in token of grief, 
 but to-day with scarlet cloth to 
 show our joy." 
 
 The next day, when the wed- 
 ding was to take place, the 
 huntsman said to the landlord, 
 "Believe it or not, mine host, 
 but to-day I will eat bread at 
 the same table with the King ! " 
 
 Then, calling the hare, he said, 
 "Go, dear Jumper, and bring me a 
 bit of bread such as the King eats." 
 
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 Now, the hare was the small- 
 est, and could not trust his 
 business to any one else, but 
 was obliged to make himself 
 rfeady to go. "Oh!" thought 
 he, "if I jump along the streets 
 alone, the dogs will come out 
 after me." 
 
 While he stood thinking the 
 dogs came behind and were about 
 to seize him for a choice morsel, 
 but he made a spring (had you 
 but seen it!), and ran into a 
 sentry-box without the knowledge 
 of the soldier. The dogs came 
 and tried to hunt him out, but 
 the soldier beat them off with a 
 
194 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 club, so that they ran howling 
 and barking away. 
 
 As soon as the hare saw the 
 coast clear, he ran up to the castle 
 and into the room where the 
 Princess was, and, getting under 
 her stool, began to scratch her 
 foot. The Princess said, "Will 
 you be quiet?'' thinking it was 
 her dog. Then the hare scratched 
 her foot a second time, and she 
 said again, "Will you be quiet?" 
 but the hare would not leave off, 
 and a third time he scratched her 
 foot; and now she peeped down 
 and knew the hare by his neck- 
 lace. She took him up in her 
 
THE TWO BROTHERS. 195 
 
 arms and carried him into her 
 chamber, saying, "Dear hare, 
 what do you want?" The hare 
 replied, "My master, who killed 
 the dragon, is here, and sent me : 
 I am come for a piece of bread 
 such as the King eats.' 5 
 
 At these words she became 
 very glad, and bade her servant 
 bring her a piece of bread such 
 as the King had. When it was 
 brought, the hare said, "The 
 baker must carry it for me, or 
 the dogs will seize it." So the 
 baker carried it to the door of 
 the inn, where the hare got upon 
 his hind legs, and, taking the 
 
196 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 bread in his forepaws, carried it 
 to his master. 
 
 The landlord wondered very 
 much, but the huntsman said 
 further, "Yes, I have got the 
 King's bread, and now I will 
 have some of his meat"; and 
 calling the fox, he said, "My dear 
 fox, go and fetch me some of the 
 meat which the King is to eat 
 to-day." 
 
 The fox, who was more cunning 
 than the hare, went through the 
 lanes and alleys, without seeing a 
 dog, straight to the royal palace 
 and into the room of the Princess, 
 under whose stool he crept. 
 
THE TWO BROTHERS. 197 
 
 Presently he scratched her foot, 
 and the Princess, looking down, 
 knew the fox with her necklace, 
 and, taking him into her room, 
 she asked, "What do you want, 
 dear fox?" He replied, "My 
 master, who killed the dragon, is 
 here, and sent me to beg a piece 
 of meat such as the King will eat 
 to-day." 
 
 The Princess called the cook, 
 and made her prepare a dish of 
 meat like the King's, and, when 
 it was ready, she bade him carry 
 it for the fox to the door of the 
 inn. There the fox took the dish 
 himself, and, first driving the flies 
 
198 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 away with a whisk of his tail, 
 carried it to the hunter. 
 
 "See here, master landlord, " 
 said the hunter; "here are the 
 bread and meat : now I will have 
 the same fruit as the King eats." 
 
 He called the wolf, and said, 
 "Dear wolf, go and fetch me 
 some fruit the same as the King 
 eats to-day." 
 
 The wolf went straight to the 
 castle like a person who feared 
 nodody, and, when he came into 
 the Princess's chamber, he plucked 
 at her clothes so that she looked 
 round. The maiden knew the 
 wolf by his necklace, and took 
 
THE TWO BROTHERS. 199 
 
 him with her into her room, and 
 said, "Dear wolf, what do you 
 want ? " 
 
 The beast replied, " My master, 
 who killed the dragon, is here, 
 and has sent me for some fruit 
 like that the King eats to-day." 
 
 Then she bade the cook prepare 
 a dish of fruit the same as the 
 King's, and carry it to the inn- 
 door for the wolf, who took it of 
 her, and bore it in to his master. 
 The hunter said, "See here, my 
 host; now I have bread, meat, 
 and fruit the same as the King's, 
 but I will also have the same 
 sweetmeats." Then he called to 
 
200 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 the bear, "Dear bear, go and 
 fetch me some sweetmeats like 
 those the King has for his dinner 
 to-day, for you like sweet things." 
 The bear rolled along up to 
 the castle, while every one got out 
 of his way ; but, when he came to 
 the guard, he pointed his gun at 
 him, and would not let him pass 
 into the royal rooms. The bear, 
 however, got up on his hind legs, 
 and gave the guard a box on the 
 ears with his paw, which knocked 
 him down ; and then he went 
 straight to the room of the Prin- 
 cess, and, getting behind her, 
 growled slightly. 
 
THE TWO BROTHERS. 201 
 
 She looked round and saw the 
 bear, whom she took into her own 
 chamber and asked him what he 
 came for. " My master, who slew 
 the dragon, is here," said he, "and 
 has sent me for some sweetmeats 
 such as the King eats." 
 
 The Princess called the sugar- 
 baker, and bade him prepare sweet- 
 meats like those the King had, 
 and carry them for the bear to the 
 inn. There the bear took charge 
 of them, and, first licking off the 
 sugar which had boiled over, he 
 took them in to his master. 
 
 "See here, friend landlord," 
 said the huntsman ; " now I have 
 
202 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 bread, meat, fruit, and sweetmeats 
 from the table of the King ; but I 
 mean also to drink his wine." 
 
 He called the lion and said, 
 "Dear lion, go and fetch me some 
 wine like that the King drinks." 
 
 The lion strode through the 
 town, where all the people made 
 way for him, and soon came to 
 the castle, wdiere the watchmen 
 tried to stop him at the gates; 
 but he just gave a little bit of a 
 roar, and they were so frightened 
 that they all ran away. He 
 walked on to the royal chamber 
 and knocked with his tail at the 
 door, and when the Princess 
 
THE TWO BROTHERS. 203 
 
 opened it, she was at first 
 frightened to see a lion; but, 
 soon knowing him by the gold 
 snap of her necklace which he 
 wore, she took him into her room 
 and asked, " Dear lion, what do 
 you wish?" 
 
 The lion replied, "My master, 
 who killed the dragon, is here, 
 and has sent me for wine like 
 that the King drinks at his own 
 table." The Princess called the 
 butler, and told him to give the 
 lion wine such as the King drank. 
 But the lion said, "I will go 
 down with you and see that I 
 have the right kind." 
 
204 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 When they found it he bade 
 the butler fill six bottles with it, 
 and the lion, taking the basket in 
 his mouth, carried it to his master. 
 
 The hunter called the landlord, 
 and said, " See here ; now I have 
 bread, meat, fruit, sweetmeats, 
 and wine, the very same as the 
 King will himself eat to-day, and 
 so I will make my dinner with 
 my animals." 
 
 They sat down and ate, for he 
 gave the hare, the fox, the wolf, 
 the bear, and the lion their share 
 of the good things, and was very 
 happy, for he felt the King's 
 daughter still loved him. When 
 
THE TWO BROTHERS. 205 
 
 he had finished his meal, he said 
 to the landlord : " Now, as I 
 have eaten and drunk the same 
 things as the King, I will even 
 go to the royal palace and marry 
 the Princess." 
 
 The landlord said, "How can 
 that be, for she is to marry the 
 Marshal to-day ? " 
 
 Then the hunter drew r out the 
 handkerchief which the King's 
 daughter had given him on the 
 dragon's mountain, and wherein 
 the seven tongues of the dragon's 
 seven heads were wrapped, and 
 said, " This shall help me to do 
 it." 
 
206 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 The landlord looked at the 
 handkerchief, and said, "If I 
 believe all that has been done, 
 still I cannot believe that." 
 
 Meantime the King asked his 
 daughter, "What do all these 
 wild beasts mean who have come 
 to you to-day, and passed in and 
 out of my castle ? " 
 
 She replied, "I dare not tell 
 you, but send and let the master 
 of these beasts be brought, and 
 you will do well." 
 
 The King sent a servant to the 
 inn to invite the strange man to 
 come. Then said the hunter 
 " See, mine host, the King even 
 
THE TWO BROTHERS. 207 
 
 sends a servant to invite me to 
 come, but I do not go yet." And 
 to the servant he said, " I beg 
 that the King will send me royal 
 clothes, and a carriage with six 
 horses, and servants to wait on 
 
 me." 
 
 When the King heard this 
 answer, he said to his daughter, 
 "What shall I do?" "Do as he 
 desires, and you will do well," she 
 replied. So the King sent a suit 
 of royal clothes, a carriage with 
 six horses, and servants to wait 
 upon the man. As the hunter 
 saw r them coming, he said to the 
 landlord, " See here, I am treated 
 
208 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 just as I desired to be," and, put- 
 ting on the royal clothes, he took 
 the handkerchief with him, and 
 drove to the King. 
 
 When the King saw him com- 
 ing, he asked his daughter how 
 he should receive him, and she 
 said, "Go out to meet him, and 
 you will do well." So the King 
 met him and led him into the 
 palace, the animals following. 
 The King showed him a seat 
 near himself and his daughter, 
 and the Marshal sat upon the 
 other side. Now, against the 
 wall was placed the seven-headed 
 dragon, stuffed as if it were yet 
 
THE TWO BROTHERS. 
 
 209 
 
 alive; and the King said, "The 
 seven heads of that dragon were 
 cut off by our Marshal." 
 
 l& ^ 
 
 Then the hunter rose up, and, 
 opening the seven jaws of the 
 dragon, asked where were the 
 seven tongues. This frightened 
 the Marshal, and he turned pale 
 as death, but at last he said, 
 " dragons have no tongues." 
 
210 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 The hunter replied, "Liars 
 should have none, but the 
 dragon's tongues are the trophies 
 of the dragon slayer." And so 
 saying, he unwrapped the hand- 
 kerchief, and there lay the seven 
 tongues. He put one into each 
 mouth of the monster, and they 
 fitted exactly. Then he took the 
 handkerchief, upon which her 
 name was marked, and showed it 
 to the maiden, and asked her to 
 whom she had given it, and she 
 replied, "To him who slew the 
 dragon." 
 
 Then he called his beasts, and 
 taking from each the necklace, 
 
THE TWO BROTHERS. 211 
 
 and from the lion the golden 
 snap, he put them together, and 
 showing them to the Princess too, 
 asked to whom they belonged. 
 The Princess said, "The necklace 
 and the snap were mine, and I 
 shared it among the animals who 
 helped to conquer the dragon." 
 
 Then the huntsman said, 
 "When I was sleeping after the 
 fight, the Marshal came and cut 
 off my head, and then took away 
 the Princess, and gave out that it 
 was he who killed the dragon. 
 
 " I show these tongues, this 
 necklace, and this handkerchief 
 for proofs that he has lied." Then 
 
212 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 he told how the beasts had cured 
 him with a wonderful root, and 
 that for a year he had wandered, 
 and at last had come again, where 
 he had learned the deceit of the 
 Marshal from the innkeeper. The 
 King then asked his daughter, 
 "Is it true that this man killed 
 the dragon?" 
 
 "Yes," she replied, "it is true; 
 but I dared not tell the wicked 
 deeds of the Marshal, because he 
 said if I did he would kill me." 
 
 After these words, the King 
 called twelve wise men to judge 
 the Marshal, and these agreed 
 that he should be banished. Then 
 
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 the King gave his daughter to 
 the huntsman. The wedding was 
 a joyful one, and the young King 
 caused his father and foster-father 
 to be brought to him, and loaded 
 them with presents. 
 
 The young King and Queen 
 were now very happy. He often 
 went out hunting, and the faithful 
 animals always went with him. 
 
 There was a forest near by 
 which was said to be haunted, 
 and if one entered it he did not 
 easily get out again. The young 
 King took a great fancy to hunt 
 in it. One day he rode with a 
 great company, and, as he came 
 
214 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 near the forest, he saw a snow- 
 white doe going into it; so, 
 telling his men to await his re- 
 turn, he rode off among the trees, 
 only his faithful beasts going 
 with him. 
 
 The men of the court waited 
 and waited until evening, but he 
 did not return; so they rode 
 home, and told the young Queen 
 that her husband had ridden into 
 the forest in pursuit of a white 
 doe, and had not come out again. 
 The news made her very anxious 
 about him. 
 
 He, however, had ridden farther 
 and farther into the wood after 
 
THE TWO BROTHERS. 215 
 
 the beautiful animal without 
 catching it. When he thought it 
 was within range of his gun, with 
 one spring it got away, till at last 
 it went quite out of sight. 
 
 Then, for the first time, he 
 saw how deeply he had plunged 
 into the thicket; and, taking his 
 horn, he gave n blast, but there 
 was no answer, for his people 
 could not hear it. Soon night 
 began to close in, and, seeing that 
 he could not get home that day, 
 he built a fire, and made ready to 
 to pass the night there. 
 
 While he sat by the fire with 
 his beasts lying near him, he 
 
216 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 thought he heard a human voice, 
 but, on looking round, he could 
 see nobody. Soon after, he heard 
 a groan as if from a box, and, 
 looking up, he saw an old woman 
 sitting in a tree, who was groan- 
 ing and crying, "Oh, oh, oh, how 
 I do freeze ! 9i He called out, 
 "Come down and. warm yourself 
 if you freeze." But she said, 
 "No ; your beasts will bite me." 
 
 He replied, "They will not 
 harm you, my good lady, if you 
 come down." 
 
 But she was a witch, and said, 
 "I will throw you down a twig, 
 with which, if you beat upon 
 
THE TWO BROTHERS. 217 
 
 their backs, they can then do me 
 no harm." He did as she asked, 
 and they lay down quietly 
 enough, for they were changed 
 into stones. 
 
 Now, when the old woman was 
 safe from the animals, she sprang 
 down, and, touching the King 
 with a twig, turned him also into 
 a stone. Then she laughed to 
 herself, and buried him and his 
 beasts in a graye. 
 
 Meantime, the young Queen 
 grew more and more anxious and 
 sad because her husband did not 
 return. Just at this time, the 
 other brother came into her king- 
 
218 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 dom. He had been seeking and 
 had found no service to enter, 
 and was, therefore, traveling 
 through the country, making his 
 animals dance for a living. 
 
 Once he thought he would go 
 and look for the knife which they 
 had stuck in a tree, in order to 
 see how his brother fared. When 
 he looked at it, lo ! his brother's 
 side was half rusty and half 
 bright, and he thought his 
 brother had fallen into some 
 great trouble; but he hoped yet 
 to save him, since one half of the 
 knife was bright. 
 
 He, therefore, went with his 
 
THE TWO BROTHERS. 219 
 
 beasts towards the west; and, as 
 he came to the city, the watch 
 went out to him and asked if he 
 should tell the Queen he had 
 come, for she had for two days 
 been in great sorrow and distress 
 at his absence, and feared he had 
 been killed in the enchanted 
 wood. 
 
 The watchman thought he was 
 none other than the young King, 
 he was so much like him and 
 had also the same wild beasts 
 with him. The huntsman saw he 
 was speaking of his brother, but 
 thought it was all for the best that 
 he should give himself out as his 
 
220 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 brother, for so, perhaps, he might 
 more easily save him. 
 
 He went with the watchman 
 into the castle, and was there 
 received with great joy, for the 
 young Queen also thought he was 
 the King, and asked him where 
 he had stayed so long. He told 
 her he had been lost in a wood 
 and could not find his way out 
 any earlier. 
 
 He rested at home a few days, 
 but was always asking about the 
 enchanted wood; and at last he 
 said, "I must hunt there once 
 more." The King and the young 
 Queen begged him not to go, but 
 
THE TWO BROTHERS. 221 
 
 he went out with a great number 
 of servants. 
 
 As soon as he got into the 
 wood he saw a white hind, and 
 told his people to wait where 
 they were, while he hunted the 
 wild animal, and he rode off, his 
 beasts following him. But he 
 could not catch the hind any 
 more than his brother could ; and 
 he went so deep into the wood 
 that he had to pass the night 
 there. 
 
 As soon as he had made a fire, 
 he heard some one groaning, and 
 saying, "Oh, oh, oh, how I do 
 freeze ! " Then he looked up, and 
 
222 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 there sat the same old witch In 
 the tree, and he said to her, " If 
 you freeze, old woman, why don't 
 you come down and warm your- 
 self ? " She replied, " Because 
 your beasts would bite me ; but 
 if you will beat them with a twig 
 which I will throw down to you, 
 they can do me no harm." 
 
 When the hunter heard this he 
 doubted the old woman, and said 
 to her, " I do not beat my beasts ; 
 so come down, or I will fetch 
 you." But she called out, "What 
 are you thinking- of ? You can do 
 nothing to me." He answered, 
 "Come down, or I. will shoot 
 
THE TWO BROTHERS. 223 
 
 you." The old woman laughed, 
 and said, " Shoot away ! I am not 
 afraid of your bullets ! " 
 
 He knelt down and shot, but 
 she was bullet-proof; and, laugh- 
 ing, she called out, "You cannot 
 catch me." However, the hunter 
 knew a trick or two, and, tearing 
 three silver buttons from his coat, 
 he loaded his gun with them. 
 While he was ramming them 
 down, the old witch threw herself 
 from the tree with a loud shriek, 
 for she was not proof against 
 such shot. He placed his foot 
 upon her neck, and said, "Old 
 witch, if yon. do not tell me 
 
224 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 quickly where my brother is, I 
 will tie your hands together, and 
 throw you into the fire ! " 
 
 She begged for mercy, and said, 
 " He is turned into stone and lies in 
 the grave with his beasts." Then 
 he forced her to go with him, 
 saying, "You old wretch! Now 
 turn my brother and all the 
 creatures which lie here into 
 their proper forms, or I will 
 throw you into the fire ! " 
 
 The old witch took a twig and 
 turned the stones back to what 
 they formerly were, and there 
 before the huntsman stood his 
 brother and the beasts, as well as 
 
THE TWO BROTHERS. 225 
 
 many merchants, work-people, 
 and shepherds, who, delighted 
 with their freedom, returned 
 home. But the twin brothers, 
 when they saw each other again, 
 kissed and embraced and were 
 very glad. 
 
 They seized the old witch, 
 bound her, and laid her on the 
 fire; and, when she was burned, 
 the forest itself sank into the 
 earth, and all was clear and free 
 from trees, so that one could see 
 the royal palace only three miles 
 distant. 
 
 Now, the two brothers went 
 home together, and the younger 
 
226 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 brother said, "You see that we 
 both have on royal robes, and 
 have both the same beasts follow- 
 ing us; we will, therefore, enter 
 the city at opposite gates ? and 
 arrive at the same time before 
 the King." 
 
 Then they parted; and at the 
 same moment a watchman from 
 each gate came to the King, and 
 told him that the young Prince, 
 with the beasts, had returned 
 from the hunt, The King said, 
 "It is not possible, for your two 
 gates are a mile apart ! " But in 
 the meantime the two brothers 
 had arrived in the castle-yard, 
 
THE TWO BROTHERS. 227 
 
 and they began to mount the 
 stairs. 
 
 When they entered, the King 
 said to his daughter, "Tell me 
 which is your husband, for one 
 appears to me the same as the 
 other, and I cannot tell." 
 
 The Princess was in great 
 trouble, for she could not tell 
 which was which ; but at last she 
 bethought herself of the necklace 
 which she had given to the 
 beasts, and she looked and found 
 on one of the lions her golden 
 snap, and then she cried, " He to 
 whom this lion belongs is my 
 rightful husband." Then the 
 
228 
 
 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 young King laughed, and said, 
 "Yes, that is right"; and they 
 sat down together at table, and 
 ate, and drank, and were merry. 
 
THE SIX SWANS. 
 
 There was a King who had 
 seven children, six boys and a 
 girl, whom he loved above every- 
 thing else in the world. He 
 became afraid that some great 
 evil might happen to them, so 
 he took them away to a lonely 
 castle which stood in the midst 
 of a forest. 
 
 This castle was so hidden that 
 he himself could not have found 
 it if a wise woman had not given 
 him a ball of cotton which un- 
 rolled when he threw it before 
 him, showing him the right path. 
 
230 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 The King went so often to see 
 his dear children that an evil 
 person wished to know why he 
 went to the forest. So she gave 
 his servants money, and they told 
 her the secret, and also told her 
 of the ball of cotton which alone 
 could show her the way. 
 
 She had now no peace until 
 she found this ball. Then she 
 made some fine silken shirts, and 
 sewed within each one a charm. 
 One day soon after, when the 
 King had gone out hunting, she 
 took the little shirts and went 
 into the forest, and the cotton 
 showed her the path. 
 
THE SIX SWANS. 231 
 
 The children, seeing some one 
 coming in the distance, thought 
 it was their dear father, and ran 
 out towards her full of joy. 
 Then she threw over each of 
 them a shirt, which, as it touched 
 their bodies, changed them into 
 swans, which flew away over the 
 forest. Happily the little girl 
 had remained in the castle, and 
 so she was not changed to a swan. 
 
 The next day the King went to 
 visit his children, but he found 
 only the maiden. " Where are 
 your brothers ? " asked he. " Ah, 
 dear father," she replied, "they 
 have gone away and left me 
 
232 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 alone " ; and she told Mm how 
 she had looked out of the window 
 and had seen them changed into 
 swans, which had flown over the 
 forest ; and then she showed him 
 some feathers which they had 
 dropped in the yard, for she had 
 saved every -one. 
 
 The King was much grieved, 
 and feared the girl might also be 
 stolen away, so he took her with 
 him. 
 
 The poor maiden thought to 
 herself, "This is no longer my 
 place, I will go and seek my 
 brothers"; and when night came 
 she went quite deep into the wood. 
 
THE SIX SWANS. 233 
 
 She walked all night and most 
 of the next day, until her feet 
 were so sore she could go no 
 further. Just then she saw a 
 rude hut, and, walking in, she 
 found a room with six little beds. 
 She dared not get into one, but 
 crept under, and, lying down 
 upon the hard earth, thought she 
 would pass the night there. Just 
 as the sun was setting, she heard 
 a rustling, and saw six white 
 swans come flying in at the 
 window. 
 
 They settled on the ground and 
 began blowing one another until 
 they had blown all their feathers 
 
234 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 off, and tlieir swan's down 
 dropped off like a shirt. Then 
 the maiden knew them at once 
 for her brothers, and gladly crept 
 out from under the bed, and the 
 brothers were not less glad to see 
 tlieir sister. "But here you must 
 not stay," said they to her; "this 
 is a robbers' hiding-place." "Can 
 you not protect me, then ? " asked 
 the sister. 
 
 "No," they replied, "we can 
 lay aside our swan's feathers for 
 only a quarter of an hour each 
 evening. For that time we regain 
 our human form, but afterwards 
 
 we are again changed into swans. 
 
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THE SIX SWANS. 235 
 
 Their sister then asked them, 
 with tears, " Can you not be my 
 brothers again ? " 
 
 "Oh, no," replied they. "The 
 task is too hard. For six long 
 years you must neither speak nor 
 laugh, and during that time you 
 must sew for us six little shirts 
 of star-flowers, and should there 
 fall a single word from your lips, 
 then all your labor will be vain." 
 Just as the brother said this, the 
 quarter of an hour came to an 
 end, and they all flew out of the 
 window again like swans. 
 
 The little sister made a solemn 
 promise to herself that she would 
 
236 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 save her brothers, or die in the 
 attempt. So she left the cottage, 
 and, going deep into the forest, 
 passed the night in the branches 
 of a tree. The next rooming she 
 went out and gathered the star- 
 flowers to sew. 
 
 She had no one to talk with, 
 and for laughing she had no 
 spirits, so there in the tree she 
 sat, intent upon her work. After 
 she had passed some time thus, 
 the King of that country, who 
 was hunting in the forest with 
 his men, came under the tree in 
 which the maiden sat. They 
 called to her and asked, "Who 
 
THE SIX SWANS. 237 
 
 art thou ? " But she gave no 
 answer. "Come down to us; we 
 will do thee no harm." 
 
 She simply shook her head, 
 and, when they pressed her further 
 with questions, she threw down 
 to them her gold necklace, hoping 
 they would go away. But they 
 did not leave her; then she threw 
 down her girdle, but in vain. 
 
 At last the hunter himself 
 climbed the tree, brought down 
 the maiden, and took her before 
 the King. The King asked her, 
 "Who art thou? What doest 
 thou in that tree ? " But she did 
 not answer. 
 
238 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 She was so beautiful, the 
 King's heart was touched, and he 
 put around her his cloak, and, 
 placing her before him on his 
 horse, took her to his castle. 
 There he had rich clothing made 
 for her, and, although her beauty 
 shone as the sunbeams, not a 
 word would she speak. The 
 King kept her by his side, and 
 her gentle manners so won him, 
 that he said, " This maiden will I 
 marry, and no other." 
 
 Now, the King had wicked 
 subjects who spoke eyil of the 
 young Queen. " Who knows 
 whence she comes ? " said they. 
 
THE SIX SWANS. 
 
 239 
 
 "She who cannot speak is not 
 worthy of a King." Much evil 
 was said of her, but the King 
 would not believe it. At last so 
 
 many became her enemies be- 
 cause she would not tell the 
 secret of her sewing in constant 
 silence, that even the King's 
 power could not save her 
 
240 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 from harm, and it was decreed 
 that she should be put to 
 death. 
 
 When the time came for her to 
 die, it happened that the very 
 day had come when her brothers 
 should be freed. The shirts were 
 ready, all but the last, which 
 lacked the left sleeve. As she 
 was led to the scaffold she placed 
 them upon her arm. Just as she 
 mounted it, and the fire was 
 about to be kindled, she saw six 
 swans come flying through the 
 air. 
 
 Her heart leaped for joy as she 
 saw her brothers coming. Soon 
 
THE SIX SWANS. 
 
 241 
 
 the swans alighted so near that 
 she was able to throw over them 
 the shirts, which caused their 
 feathers to fall off, and the 
 
 brothers stood up alive and well ; 
 but the youngest had a swan's 
 wing instead of his left arm. 
 The Queen could defend herself 
 now, and the people believed her 
 
242 GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. 
 
 innocent as soon as they saw the 
 swans changed into six noblemen 
 by the work she had done in 
 silence, at the risk of her life. 
 
ANNOUNCEMENTS 
 
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CLASSICS FOR CHILDREN 
 
 THIS series of books consists so far as possible of 
 complete works from the great masters, specially 
 edited to meet the wants of young people in the school 
 and in the home. 
 
 iEsop's Fables 
 
 Andersen's Fairy Tales, Part i 
 
 Andersen's Fairy Tales, Part 2 
 
 Arabian Nights 
 
 Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress 
 
 Burt's Stories from Plato 
 
 Cervantes's Don Quixote 
 
 Chamisso's Peter Schlemihl 
 
 Chesterfield's Letters 
 
 Church's Stories of the Old World 
 
 Defoe's Robinson Crusoe 
 
 Dickens's Tale of Two Cities 
 
 Epictetus 
 
 Fiske-Irving's Washington 
 
 Fouque's Undine 
 
 Francillon's Gods and Heroes 
 
 Franklin: His Life by Himself 
 
 Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield 
 
 Grimm's Fairy Taies, Part I 
 
 Grimm's Fairy Tales, Part II 
 
 Grote and Segur's Two Great Retreats 
 
 Hughes's Tom Brown at Rugby ' 
 
 Hugo's Jean Valjean 
 
 Irving's Alhambra 
 
 Irving's Sketch-Book (Six Selections) 
 
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TWO BOOKS BY JOHANNA SPYRI 
 
 HEIDI. A Little Swiss Girl's City and 
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 Translated from the German by HELEN B. DOLE 
 
 363 pages. Illustrated 
 
 EIDI " is a charming story of a Swiss girl. Her life in a 
 rough mountain hut, her experiences in a city home where 
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 MONI THE GOAT BOY and Other Stories 
 
 Translated and edited by EDITH F. KUNZ, recently teacher in the 
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 WAYS OF WOOD FOLK 
 
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 WILDERNESS WAYS 
 
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 The hidden life of the wilderness is here presented by sketches and stories gathered, 
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 SECRETS OF THE WOODS 
 
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 This is another chapter in the shy, wild life of the fields and woods, of Little Toohkees, 
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 WOOD FOLK AT SCHOOL 
 
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 The title suggests the central thought about which the author has grouped some of his 
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 A LITTLE BROTHER TO THE BEAR 
 
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 THE SEVEN LITTLE SISTERS WHO LIVE ON THE ROUND BALL 
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 EACH AND ALL; THE SEVEN LITTLE SISTERS PROVE THEIR 
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 THE STORIES MOTHER NATURE TOLD HER CHILDREN. Cloth. 
 
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 TEN BOYS WHO LIVED ON THE ROAD FROM LONG AGO TO 
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 Dame Nature unfolds in "Stories Mother Nature Told" some 
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