THE GOLDEN GOOSE -GRIMM'S FAIRY TALE Truyện cổ Grim là 1 trong những bộ truyện cổ tích nổi tiếng nhất thế giới. Bộ truyện này vốn đã được dịch ra nhiều thứ tiếng . Sau đây là bản tiếng Anh của bộ truyện này | THE GOLDEN GOOSE There was a man who had three sons the youngest of whom was called Dummling and was despised mocked and sneered at on every occasion. It happened that the eldest wanted to go into the forest to hew wood and before he went his mother gave him a beautiful sweet cake and a bottle of wine in order that he might not suffer from hunger or thirst. When he entered the forest he met a little grey-haired old man who bade him good day and said Do give me a piece of cake out of your pocket and let me have a draught of your wine I am so hungry and thirsty. But the clever son answered If I give you my cake and wine I shall have none for myself be off with you and he left the little man standing and went on. But when he began to hew down a tree it was not long before he made a false stroke and the axe cut him in the arm so that he had to go home and have it bound up. And this was the little grey man s doing. After this the second son went into the forest and his mother gave him like the eldest a cake and a bottle of wine. The little old grey man met him likewise and asked him for a piece of cake and a drink of wine. But the second son too said sensibly enough What I give you will be taken away from myself be off and he left the little man standing and went on. His punishment however was not delayed when he had made a few blows at the tree he struck himself in the leg so that he had to be carried home. Then Dummling said Father do let me go and cut wood. The father answered Your brothers have hurt themselves with it leave it alone you do not understand anything about it. But Dummling begged so long that at last he said Just go then you will get wiser by hurting yourself. His mother gave him a cake made with water and baked in the cinders and with it a bottle of sour beer. When he came to the forest the little old grey man met him likewise and greeting him said Give me a piece of your cake and a drink out of your bottle I am so hungry and thirsty. Dummling answered
