THE PINK-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 PINK There was once upon a time a queen to whom God had given no children. Every morning she went into the garden and prayed to God in heaven to bestow on her a son or a daughter. Then an angel from heaven came to her and said Be at rest you shall have a son with the power of wishing so that whatsoever in the world he wishes for that shall he have. Then she went to the king and told him the joyful tidings and when the time was come she gave birth to a son and the king was filled with gladness. Every morning she went with the child to the garden where the wild beasts were kept and washed herself there in a clear stream. It happened once when the child was a little older that it was lying in her arms and she fell asleep. Then came the old cook who knew that the child had the power of wishing and stole it away and he took a hen and cut it in pieces and dropped some of its blood on the queen s apron and on her dress. Then he carried the child away to a secret place where a nurse was obliged to suckle it and he ran to the king and accused the queen of having allowed her child to be taken from her by the wild beasts. When the king saw the blood on her apron he believed this fell into such a passion that he ordered a high tower to be built in which neither sun nor moon could be seen and had his wife put into it and walled up. Here she was to stay for seven years without meat or drink and die of hunger. But God sent two angels from heaven in the shape of white doves which flew to her twice a day and carried her food until the seven years were over. The cook however thought to himself If the child has the power of wishing and I am here he might very easily get me into trouble. So he left the palace and went to the boy who was already big enough to speak and said to him Wish for a beautiful palace for yourself with a garden and all else that pertains to it. Scarcely were the words out of the boy s mouth when everything was there that he had wished for. After a while the
