THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE- 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 . | THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE There was once a fisherman who lived with his wife in a pigsty close by the seaside. The fisherman used to go out all day long a-fishing and one day as he sat on the shore with his rod looking at the sparkling waves and watching his line all on a sudden his float was dragged away deep into the water and in drawing it up he pulled out a great fish. But the fish said Pray let me live I am not a real fish I am an enchanted prince put me in the water again and let me go Oh ho said the man you need not make so many words about the matter I will have nothing to do with a fish that can talk so swim away sir as soon as you please Then he put him back into the water and the fish darted straight down to the bottom and left a long streak of blood behind him on the wave. When the fisherman went home to his wife in the pigsty he told her how he had caught a great fish and how it had told him it was an enchanted prince and how on hearing it speak he had let it go again. Did not you ask it for anything said the wife we live very wretchedly here in this nasty dirty pigsty do go back and tell the fish we want a snug little cottage. The fisherman did not much like the business however he went to the seashore and when he came back there the water looked all yellow and green. And he stood at the water s edge and said O man of the sea Hearken to me My wife Ilsabill Will have her own will And hath sent me to beg a boon of thee Then the fish came swimming to him and said Well what is her will What does your wife want Ah said the fisherman she says that when I had caught you I ought to have asked you for something before I let you go she does not like living any longer in the pigsty and wants a snug little cottage. Go home then said the fish she is in the cottage already So the man went home and saw his wife standing at the door of a nice trim little cottage. Come in come in said she is not this much better than the filthy pigsty we had And there was a parlour .
