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DOCTOR KNOWALL -GRIMM'S FAIRY TALE

DOCTOR KNOWALL-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 | DOCTOR KNOWALL There was once upon a time a poor peasant called Crabb who drove with two oxen a load of wood to the town and sold it to a doctor for two talers. When the money was being counted out to him it so happened that the doctor was sitting at table and when the peasant saw how well he ate and drank his heart desired what he saw and would willingly have been a doctor too. So he remained standing a while and at length inquired if he too could not be a doctor. Oh yes said the doctor that is soon managed. What must I do asked the peasant. In the first place buy yourself an A B C book of the kind which has a cock on the frontispiece in the second turn your cart and your two oxen into money and get yourself some clothes and whatsoever else pertains to medicine thirdly have a sign painted for yourself with the words I am Doctor Knowall and have that nailed up above your house-door. The peasant did everything that he had been told to do. When he had doctored people awhile but not long a rich and great lord had some money stolen. Then he was told about Doctor Knowall who lived in such and such a village and must know what had become of the money. So the lord had the horses harnessed to his carriage drove out to the village and asked Crabb if he were Doctor Knowall. Yes he was he said. Then he was to go with him and bring back the stolen money. Oh yes but Grete my wife must go too. The lord was willing and let both of them have a seat in the carriage and they all drove away together. When they came to the nobleman s castle the table was spread and Crabb was told to sit down and eat. Yes but my wife Grete too said he and he seated himself with her at the table. And when the first servant came with a dish of delicate fare the peasant nudged his wife and said Grete that was the first meaning that was the servant who brought the first dish. The servant however thought he intended by that to say That is the first thief and as he actually was so he was terrified and said .