THE OLD MAN AND HIS GRANDSON-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 OLD MAN AND HIS GRANDSON There was once a very old man whose eyes had become dim his ears dull of hearing his knees trembled and when he sat at table he could hardly hold the spoon and spilt the broth upon the table-cloth or let it run out of his mouth. His son and his son s wife were disgusted at this so the old grandfather at last had to sit in the corner behind the stove and they gave him his food in an earthenware bowl and not even enough of it. And he used to look towards the table with his eyes full of tears. Once too his trembling hands could not hold the bowl and it fell to the ground and broke. The young wife scolded him but he said nothing and only sighed. Then they brought him a wooden bowl for a few half-pence out of which he had to eat. They were once sitting thus when the little grandson of four years old began to gather together some bits of wood upon the ground. What are you doing there asked the father. I am making a little trough answered the child for father and mother to eat out of when I am big. The man and his wife looked at each other for a while and presently began to cry. Then they took the old grandfather to the table and henceforth always let him eat with them and likewise said nothing if he did spill a little of anything THE LITTLE PEASANT There was a certain village wherein no one lived but really rich peasants and just one poor one whom they called the little peasant. He had not even so much as a cow and still less money to buy one and yet he and his wife did so wish to have one. One day he said to her Listen I have a good idea there is our gossip the carpenter he shall make us a wooden calf and paint it brown so that it looks like any other and in time it will certainly get big and be a cow. the woman also liked the idea and their gossip the carpenter cut and planed the calf and painted it as it ought to be and made it with its head hanging down as if it were eating. Next morning when the cows were being driven out the little .
