The Brave Little Tailor

On a summer morning, a tailor sat at the window table, very happy, and carefully sewed clothes. A peasant woman came from the street and shouted, "Sell good syrup!" Sell good syrup! ”

The voice reached the little tailor's ear, very cute, and he stuck his head out of the window and cried, "Come on, dear lady, here you will buy your things." ”

Carrying a heavy basket, the woman went up three flights of stairs to the tailor, opened all the jars together, and laid them before him. He looked at them all carefully, picked them up and sniffed them, and finally said, "It doesn't matter if you weigh me two or two or five dollars, even if you call me three or two." ”

The woman, who had hoped to sell a large part of the goods, could only give him what he wanted, was very angry and grunted away.

The little tailor said, "This syrup is good for my health, it's going to give me strength." With that he took the bread out of the cupboard, cut it neatly and coated it with syrup. He said: "The taste must not be bitter, but I will eat it after I have made this close-fitting jacket." ”

He put the bread aside and continued to sew the clothes, because he was happy, and the stitches became larger and larger. At this time, the smell of the sweet syrup hit the wall, and there were a large number of flies on the wall, and they smelled the smell and flew to the bread in droves. The little tailor cried, "Hey, who invited you to come?" So he went to catch up with the uninvited guests. But the flies did not understand German, and instead of retreating, they became more and more numerous. Finally the tailor got angry, picked up a small piece of cloth, and said, "Wait, I'm going to clean you up!" He hit up without mercy.

He picked up the cloth and counted, and there were seven dead flies, stretching straight out their legs. He had to admire his bravery and said, "I was such a capable man that everyone in the city should know." ”

The tailor hurriedly cut a strip, sewed it, and embroidered it with large letters: kill seven at once.

He added, "Oh, what is in town, we should let the people of the whole world know!" His heart shook like a lamb's tail.

The tailor tied the strap around his waist and went outside, because he felt that the tailor's shop was too small to give full play to his bravery. Before he left, he searched around the house to see if there was anything he could carry, but he only found a piece of chen cheese, so he hid it in a bag. In front of the gate, he saw a bird that had been caught in the jungle before, and it was also placed in a bag with Yu Cheese.

He set off at once; for he was light and agile, and did not feel tired along the way. He made his way to a mountain, and when he reached the highest peak, there sat a burly giant, looking around, very at ease. The little tailor boldly walked up to him, talked to him, and said, "Hello, buddy, are you sitting here watching the vast world?" I was about to go to that piece to try my luck. Are you happy to go together? ”

The giant looked at the tailor with contempt and said, "You rogue! Poor stuff! ”

The little tailor replied, "What words! "He unbuttoned his shirt and showed it to the giant." You can see what kind of person I am. ”

The giant saw "Kill seven at once!" A few words, thinking that the tailor had killed seven people, had only a little respect for the young man. But he still had to test him, so he picked up a stone, squeezed it tightly, and dripped water. The giant said, "If you have the strength, do as I do." ”

The little tailor said, "Is that all?" This is an easy thing for us to do. He reached into his pocket and took out the soft cheese and squeezed it so that the juice flowed straight out. He said, "Isn't that better than you did?" ”

The giant had nothing to say, but didn't believe it was something a short man could do. The giant lifted a stone and fell it so high that it was almost invisible to the eye. "Well, you duckling-like guy, do as I do."

The tailor said, "It's a good fall, but the stone is still going to fall to the ground." I'm going to drop one for you to show you and call it hard to come back. He took the bird out of his pocket and threw it up. The bird was set free, rejoiced, and flew high, never to return. The tailor asked, "Man, what do you think of such a thing?" ”

The giant said, "You can throw things, but see if you can afford to carry heavy things." He led the little tailor to a large oak tree that had fallen to the ground and said, "If you have the strength, help me carry this tree out of the woods." ”

The dwarf replied, "Yes, you put the body of the tree on your shoulder, and I will lift the big and small branches to carry it, and that end is important." ”

The giant put the tree body on his shoulder, but the tailor sat on a thick branch, and the giant could not look back, so he carried the whole tree and the little tailor away. The little tailor was very happy in the back, singing the tune of "three tailors riding out of the gate on horseback", as if carrying a tree was an easy task. The giant walked for a while carrying a heavy burden, and could no longer walk, shouting, "Listen, I'm going to put the tree down." The tailor jumped down swiftly, wrapped his arms around the tree, as if carrying it, and said to the giant, "You are a very tall man, but you cannot even lift this tree." ”

They marched together, past a cherry tree, and the giant grabbed the top of the tree with the ripe cherries, bent it down, and handed it to the tailor, telling him to eat the cherry on it, but the tailor's strength was so great that he could not grasp the tree, and as soon as the giant let go, the top of the tree bounced back to its original place, and the tailor was also thrown into the air. He fell to the ground, unharmed, and the giant said, "What, don't you have the strength to grasp this very thin branch?" ”

The little tailor replied, "Isn't it that there is no strength, do you think that the person who killed seven people is like this?" Because the hunters were shooting inside the jungle below, I jumped over the trees. If you can, jump and see it like I do. ”

The giant tried, but could not jump over, but hung in the branches, so the tailor won him again.

The giant said, "If you are such a brave young man, then come with me to my cave for the night." The little tailor agreed, followed him, and went to the cave. There were other giants sitting by the fire in the cave, each holding a roasted sheep to eat. The little tailor looked around and thought, "This place is much bigger than my tailor's shop." ”

The giant pointed him to a bed and told him to lie down and sleep. The tailor felt that the bed was too big and did not go up to sleep, but only curled up in a corner of the house. In the middle of the night, the giant thought that the little tailor was asleep, got up and took a large iron rod, and broke the bed at once, thinking that the life of the grass worm had also been lost. Early in the morning, the giants went to the forest and completely forgot about the little tailor, and the little tailor was suddenly happy and boldly went there. The giants were taken aback, afraid that he would beat them all to death, and they all ran away in a hurry.

The little tailor always walked forward. After traveling for a long time, he went to the courtyard of a royal palace, because he felt tired, and lay down in the grass and fell asleep. When he was asleep, people looked at him from all directions and saw a few words written on the tape: Kill seven at once.

They said, "Ah hey, in peacetime, what is this great fighting hero doing here?" He must be a very personable. ”

They went to report to the king that if there was a war, he would be an important and useful person, and that he should not be allowed to go. The king felt good, so he sent a courtier to the little tailor, and when he woke up, asked him to serve in the army. The man who had been sent stood next to the sleeping man and waited until he stretched his limbs and opened his eyes before telling him of his task.

The little tailor replied, "It is for this reason that I have come here, and I am willing to serve the king." So he was received with honor and a special dwelling.

But the other soldiers opposed the little tailor, hoping to send him thousands of miles away. They talked to each other and said, "If we argue with him, and he fights, he will kill seven at once, and none of us can resist." So what to do? So they decided to go to the king together and resign.

They said, "We can't do things together with the seven people who killed them." ”

The king was very sad that for this man he was going to lose all his loyal soldiers, and he wanted not to see him again, and he wanted to send him away. But he did not dare to resign him, for fear that he would beat him and all his people to death and go to the throne himself. He thought about it for a long time, and finally found a good idea. He sent someone to the little tailor to tell him, because he was a very great hero, and he was going to give him a task. There were two giants in a forest in his country, they robbed and stole, killed and set fires, caused great damage, and people had to risk their lives before they dared to approach them. If he could subdue and kill the two giants, the king would give him his only adopted daughter as his wife and half of the kingdom as a dowry; and send a hundred ping-pong horses to help him.

The little tailor thought, "People like me deserve these things." A beautiful princess and half a kingdom, which is not something that everyone has. ”

He replied, "Oh, well, I must subdue the two giants, but this hundred cavalry can not be left; kill seven people at once, and still fear two!" ”

The little tailor went out of town, and a hundred cavalrymen followed him. He walked to the edge of the forest and said to his companions, "You stay here, and I'm going to go alone to the two giants." ”

Then he jumped into the forest and looked left and right. After a while, he saw two giants sleeping under a tree, and the sound of their noses shook the branches up and down, and the little tailor quickly picked up two pockets of stones and brought them to the tree. He reached the tree, rode on a branch, and was sitting on top of the sleeping giant, throwing the stones one by one into the chest of a giant. The giant didn't feel it for a long time, and finally woke up, bumped into his companion and said, "Why did you hit me?" ”

Another said, "You're dreaming, I didn't hit you." ”

They lay down again to sleep, and the tailor dropped a stone on the second giant.

The second cried, "What? Why did you hit me? ”

The first one replied, "I didn't hit you." He grunted in his mouth.

They quarreled for a while, and because they were tired, they left their eyes closed again. The little tailor resumed his game, picked up the largest stone, and with all his strength fell into the chest of the first giant.

The giant cried out, "This is abomination. So he jumped up like a madman and slammed his companion into the tree, and the tree trembled. The other used the same method against him, and they were so angry that they uprooted trees and beat each other for a long time, and finally the two fell to the ground at the same time and died.

The tailor jumped down and said, "Fortunately, they didn't pull up the tree where I was sitting, otherwise I would have had to jump like a squirrel to other trees, and people like me would jump very fast!" He drew his sword, slashed at each man's chest with force, and then went outside the forest and said to the cavalry, "The task is done, I have killed both; the work is very arduous, and when they are nowhere to be able to do so, they uproot the tree to resist, but when I kill seven men at once, it is useless." ”

The cavalry asked, "Aren't you wounded?" ”

The tailor replied, "Things are going well, I wasn't hurt at all." ”

The cavalry did not believe his words, and went into the forest, only to see two giants soaked in blood, surrounded by uprooted trees.

The tailor asked the king what he had promised him, but the king regretted his original promise and reconsidered the idea of driving the hero away. He said to him, "You still have to accomplish a heroic cause to get my daughter and half the kingdom." There is a unicorn inside the forest, causing great damage. You should catch it first."

"A unicorn is not as scary as two giants: killing seven at once is my business." He went into the forest with a rope and an axe, and asked his men to wait outside. It didn't take long for him to look for the unicorn, and it came straight to the tailor, as if unceremoniously, to poke him with its horn. The tailor said, "Slowly, slowly, this is not going to work." He waited for the beast to approach and jumped swiftly behind the tree. The unicorn slammed into the tree with all its strength, poking its horn into the tree, so tight that it could not be pulled out, and it could not move. The tailor said, "Now I have this beast." He came out from behind the tree, first tied the rope around the unicorn's neck, and then used an axe to split the tree and dig out the horns. When he had done everything, he led the beast to the king.

Unwilling to give him the agreed reward, the king made a third condition, saying that the tailor would catch a wild boar that had caused great damage in the forest before he could marry, and called the hunters to help him.

The tailor said, "Yes, it's an easy thing to do." ”

He does not take hunters into the forest. Naturally they were pleased, for the boar had welcomed them many times, and they were reluctant to chase it any longer.

As soon as the boar saw the tailor, his mouth full of white foam and grinding his teeth, ran toward him and pushed him to the ground. But the agile hero jumped into a nearby chapel and at once jumped out of the window above, and the wild boar ran after him, and he made a circle outside the church, closed the door, and the furious beast was closed, too bulky to jump out of the window. The little tailor called out to the hunters and told them to see the captured beasts for themselves. The hero went to the king, and whether the king liked it or not, this time he had to keep his promise and had to give him his daughter and half the kingdom. If he knew that standing before him was not a hero, but only a little tailor, then he would be even more saddened, and in any case, the wedding ceremony was held in the midst of grand extravagance and little joy, and the tailor became king.

Soon after, the young queen heard her husband say in a dream in the night: "Disciple, make me a short jacket and mend my pants, or I will slap you with a ruler." So she learned of her husband's origins, and the next morning she told the king of her suffering and asked him to free her from her tailor husband.

The king comforted her, saying, "Tonight you leave the door of the bedroom open, and I tell the servants to stand outside the door, and if he is asleep, they go in and tie him up, carry him to a boat, and send him to a distant place." ”

The princess was pleased, but one of the king's guards heard all this. Because he admired the little tailor, he told him all the plot.

The little tailor said, "I'll guard against this." At night, he went to bed with his wife during his usual bedtime. She thought he was asleep, so she got up and opened the door, and then lay down again. The little tailor pretended to be asleep and cried out in a clear voice, "Apprentice, make me a short jacket and mend my pants, or I will slap you with a ruler!" I killed seven at once, killed two giants, took a unicorn, caught a wild boar, and was I afraid of the people standing outside the door? ”

The people at the door of the room were astonished to hear the tailor say this, and ran away as if the demon king had come with a large army, and no one dared to come to him.

So the tailor became the king of his life.