SWEETHEART ROLAND-GRIMM’S FAIRY TALES Một trong những bộ truyện cổ nổi tiếng nhất thế giới đã được dịch ra nhiều thứ tiếng là Truyện cổ Grimm. Sau đây là những câu truyện cổ ấy nhưng với nguyên bản bằng tiếng anh nhằm giúp các bạn nhỏ vừa học ngoại ngữ vừa tiếp xúc với thế giới thần tiên . | SWEETHEART ROLAND There was once upon a time a woman who was a real witch and had two daughters one ugly and wicked and this one she loved because she was her own daughter and one beautiful and good and this one she hated because she was her stepdaughter. The stepdaughter once had a pretty apron which the other fancied so much that she became envious and told her mother that she must and would have that apron. Be quiet my child said the old woman and you shall have it. Your stepsister has long deserved death tonight when she is asleep I will come and cut her head off. Only be careful that you are at the far side of the bed and push her well to the front. It would have been all over with the poor girl if she had not just then been standing in a corner and heard everything. All day long she dared not go out of doors and when bedtime had come the witch s daughter got into bed first so as to lie at the far side but when she was asleep the other pushed her gently to the front and took for herself the place at the back close by the wall. In the night the old woman came creeping in she held an axe in her right hand and felt with her left to see if anyone were lying at the outside and then she grasped the axe with both hands and cut her own child s head off. When she had gone away the girl got up and went to her sweetheart who was called Roland and knocked at his door. When he came out she said to him Listen dearest Roland we must fly in all haste my stepmother wanted to kill me but has struck her own child. When daylight comes and she sees what she has done we shall be lost. But said Roland I counsel you first to take away her magic wand or we cannot escape if she pursues us. The maiden fetched the magic wand and she took the dead girl s head and dropped three drops of blood on the ground one in front of the bed one in the kitchen and one on the stairs. Then she hurried away with her lover. When the old witch got up next morning she called her daughter and wanted to give
