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 . GRIMM’S FAIRY TALES - THE ADVENTURES OF CHANTICLEER AND PARTLET (PART 1) 1. HOW THEY WENT TO THE MOUNTAINS TO EAT NUTS | THE ADVENTURES OF CHANTICLEER AND PARTLET PART 1 1. HOW THEY WENT TO THE MOUNTAINS TO EAT NUTS The nuts are quite ripe now said Chanticleer to his wife Partlet suppose we go together to the mountains and eat as many as we can before the squirrel takes them all away. With all my heart said Partlet let us go and make a holiday of it together. So they went to the mountains and as it was a lovely day they stayed there till the evening. Now whether it was that they had eaten so many nuts that they could not walk or whether they were lazy and would not I do not know however they took it into their heads that it did not become them to go home on foot. So Chanticleer began to build a little carriage of nutshells and when it was finished Partlet jumped into it and sat down and bid Chanticleer harness himself to it and draw her home. That s a good joke said Chanticleer no that will never do I had rather by half walk home I ll sit on the box and be coachman if you like but I ll not draw. While this was passing a duck came quacking up and cried out You thieving vagabonds what business have you in my grounds I ll give it you well for your insolence and upon that she fell upon Chanticleer most lustily. But Chanticleer was no coward and returned the duck s blows with his sharp spurs so fiercely that she soon began to cry out for mercy which was only granted her upon condition that she would draw the carriage home for them. This she agreed to do and Chanticleer got upon the box and drove crying Now duck get on as fast as you can. And away they went at a pretty good pace. After they had travelled along a little way they met a needle and a pin walking together along the road and the needle cried out Stop stop and said it was so dark that they could hardly find their way and such dirty walking they could not get on at all he told them that he and his friend the pin had been at a publichouse a few miles off and had sat drinking till they had forgotten how late it was he begged .
