THE STORY OF THE YOUTH WHO WENT FORTH TO LEARN WHAT FEAR WAS -GRIMM'S FAIRY TALE

THE STORY OF THE YOUTH WHO WENT FORTH TO LEARN WHAT FEAR WAS-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 STORY OF THE YOUTH WHO WENT FORTH TO LEARN WHAT FEAR WAS A certain father had two sons the elder of who was smart and sensible and could do everything but the younger was stupid and could neither learn nor understand anything and when people saw him they said There s a fellow who will give his father some trouble When anything had to be done it was always the elder who was forced to do it but if his father bade him fetch anything when it was late or in the night-time and the way led through the churchyard or any other dismal place he answered Oh no father I ll not go there it makes me shudder for he was afraid. Or when stories were told by the fire at night which made the flesh creep the listeners sometimes said Oh it makes us shudder The younger sat in a corner and listened with the rest of them and could not imagine what they could mean. They are always saying It makes me shudder it makes me shudder It does not make me shudder thought he. That too must be an art of which I understand nothing Now it came to pass that his father said to him one day Hearken to me you fellow in the corner there you are growing tall and strong and you too must learn something by which you can earn your bread. Look how your brother works but you do not even earn your salt. Well father he replied I am quite willing to learn something indeed if it could but be managed I should like to learn how to shudder. I don t understand that at all yet. The elder brother smiled when he heard that and thought to himself Goodness what a blockhead that brother of mine is He will never be good for anything as long as he lives He who wants to be a sickle must bend himself betimes. The father sighed and answered him You shall soon learn what it is to shudder but you will not earn your bread by that. Soon after this the sexton came to the house on a visit and the father bewailed his trouble and told him how his younger son was so backward in every respect that he knew nothing and learnt nothing. Just .

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