HOUSEHOLD STORIES
GRIMM
HOUSEHOLD STORIES, FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE BROS: GRIMM:
TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY LUCY CRANE; AND DONE INTO PICTURES BY WALTER CRANE
DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.
NEW YORK
This new Dover edition, first published in 1963, is an unabridged republication of the work first published by Macmillan and Company in 1886.
Standard Book Number: 486-21080-4
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 64-16327
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
HALF-TITLE.
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY. Frontispiece
TITLE-PAGE. PAGE
THE RABBIT'S BRIDE, Headpiece 1 Tailpiece 2
SIX SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE, Headpiece 3 Tailpiece 8
CLEVER GRETHEL, Headpiece 9 Tailpiece 11
THE DEATH OF THE HEN, Headpiece 12 Tailpiece 13
HANS IN LUCK, Headpiece 14 Tailpiece 19
THE GOOSE GIRL To face page 20 Headpiece 20 Tailpiece 25
THE RAVEN, Headpiece 26 Tailpiece 31
THE FROG PRINCE, Headpiece 32 Tailpiece 36
CAT AND MOUSE IN PARTNERSHIP, Headpiece 37 Tailpiece 39
THE WOLF AND THE SEVEN KIDS, Headpiece 40 Tailpiece 42
FAITHFUL JOHN To face page 43 Headpiece 43 Tailpiece 51
THE WONDERFUL MUSICIAN, Headpiece 52 Tailpiece 55
THE TWELVE BROTHERS, Headpiece 56 Tailpiece 61
THE VAGABONDS, Headpiece 62 Tailpiece 64
THE BROTHER AND SISTER, Headpiece 65 Tailpiece 71
RAPUNZEL To face page 72 Headpiece 72 Tailpiece 75
THE THREE LITTLE MEN IN THE WOOD, Headpiece 76 Tailpiece 81
THE THREE SPINSTERS, Headpiece 82 Tailpiece 84
HANSEL AND GRETHEL, Headpiece 85 Tailpiece 92
THE WHITE SNAKE To face page 93 Headpiece 93 Tailpiece 97
THE STRAW, THE COAL, AND THE BEAN, Headpiece 98 Tailpiece 99
THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE, Headpiece 100 Tailpiece 108
THE GALLANT TAILOR, Headpiece 109 Tailpiece 117
ASCHENPUTTEL, Headpiece 118 Tailpiece 125
THE MOUSE, THE BIRD, AND THE SAUSAGE, Headpiece 126 Tailpiece 127
MOTHER HULDA To face page 128 Headpiece 128 Tailpiece 131
LITTLE RED-CAP, Headpiece 132 Tailpiece 135
THE BREMEN TOWN MUSICIANS, Headpiece 136 Tailpiece 139
PRUDENT HANS, Headpiece 140 Tailpiece 144
CLEVER ELSE, Headpiece 145 Tailpiece 148
THE TABLE, THE ASS, AND THE STICK, Headpiece 149 Tailpiece 159
TOM THUMB, Headpiece 160 Tailpiece 166
HOW MRS. FOX MARRIED AGAIN, Headpiece 167 Initial 169 Tailpiece 170
THE ELVES, Headpiece 171 Initial 173 Initial 174 Tailpiece 174
THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM To face page 175 Headpiece 175 Tailpiece 178
MR. KORBES, Headpiece 179 Tailpiece 180
TOM THUMB'S TRAVELS, Headpiece 181 Tailpiece 185
THE ALMOND TREE To face page 186 Headpiece 186 Tailpiece 194
OLD SULTAN, Headpiece 195 Tailpiece 197
THE SIX SWANS To face page 198 Headpiece 198 Tailpiece 203
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY, Headpiece 204 Tailpiece 207
KING THRUSHBEARD, Headpiece 208 Tailpiece 212
SNOW-WHITE To face page 213 Headpiece 213 Tailpiece 221
THE KNAPSACK, THE HAT, AND THE HORN, Headpiece 222 Tailpiece 227
RUMPELSTILTSKIN, Headpiece 228 Tailpiece 231
ROLAND, Headpiece 232 Tailpiece 235
THE GOLDEN BIRD, To face page 236 Headpiece 236 Tailpiece 243
THE DOG AND THE SPARROW, Headpiece 244 Tailpiece 247
FRED AND KATE, Headpiece 248 Tailpiece 255
THE LITTLE FARMER, Headpiece 256 Tailpiece 261
THE QUEEN BEE, Headpiece 262 Tailpiece 264
THE GOLDEN GOOSE, Headpiece 265 Tailpiece 269
THE RABBIT'S BRIDE
THERE was once a woman who lived with her daughter in a beautiful cabbage-garden; and there came a rabbit and ate up all the cabbages. At last said the woman to her daughter,
"Go into the garden, and drive out the rabbit."
"Shoo! shoo!" said the maiden; "don't eat up all our cabbages, little rabbit!"
"Come, maiden," said the rabbit, "sit on my tail and go with me to my rabbit-hutch." But the maiden would not.
Another day, back came the rabbit, and ate away at the cabbages, until the woman said to her daughter,
"Go into the garden, and drive away the rabbit."
"Shoo! shoo!" said the maiden; "don't eat up all our cabbages, little rabbit!"
"Come, maiden," said the rabbit, "sit on my tail and go with me to my rabbit-hutch." But the maiden would not.
Again, a third time back came the rabbit, and ate away at the cabbages, until the woman said to her daughter,
"Go into the garden, and drive away the rabbit."
"Shoo! shoo!" said the maiden; "don't eat up all our cabbages, little rabbit!"
"Come, maiden," said the rabbit, "sit on my tail and go with me to my rabbit-hutch."
And then the girl seated herself on the rabbit's tail, and the rabbit took her to his hutch.
"Now," said he, "set to work and cook some bran and cabbage; I am going to bid the wedding guests." And soon they were all collected. Would you like to know who they were? Well, I can only tell you what was told to me; all the hares came, and the crow who was to be the parson to marry them, and the fox for the clerk, and the altar was under the rainbow. But the maiden was sad, because she was so lonely.
"Get up! get up!" said the rabbit, "the wedding folk are all merry."
But the bride wept and said nothing, and the rabbit went away, but very soon came back again.
"Get up! get up!" said he, "the wedding folk are waiting." But the bride said nothing, and the rabbit went away. Then she made a figure of straw, and dressed it in her own clothes, and gave it a red mouth, and set it to watch the kettle of bran, and then she went home to her mother. Back again came the rabbit, saying, "Get up! get up!" and he went up and hit the straw figure on the head, so that it tumbled down.
And the rabbit thought that he had killed his bride, and he went away and was very sad.
SIX SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE
THERE was once a man who was a Jack-of-all-trades; he had served in the war, and had been brave and bold, but at the end of it he was sent about his business, with three farthings and his discharge.
"I am not going to stand this," said he; "wait till I find the right man to help me, and the king shall give me all the treasures of his kingdom before he has done with me."
Then, full of wrath, he went into the forest, and he saw one standing there by six trees which he had rooted up as if they had been stalks of corn. And he said to him,
"Will you be my man, and come along with me?"
"All right," answered he; "I must just take this bit of wood home to my father and mother." And taking one of the trees, he bound it round the other five, and putting the faggot on his shoulder, he carried it off; then soon coming back, he went along with his leader, who said,
"Two such as we can stand against the whole world."
And when they had gone on a little while, they came to a huntsman who was kneeling on one knee and taking careful aim with his rifle.
"Huntsman," said the leader, "what are you aiming at?"
"Two miles from here," answered he, "there sits a fly on the bough of an oak-tree, I mean to put a bullet into its left eye."
"Oh, come along with me," said the leader; "three of us together can stand against the world."