tailieunhanh - THE KING OF THE GOLDEN MOUNTAIN -GRIMM'S FAIRY TALE

THE KING OF THE GOLDEN MOUNTAIN 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 KING OF THE GOLDEN MOUNTAIN There was once a merchant who had only one child a son that was very young and barely able to run alone. He had two richly laden ships then making a voyage upon the seas in which he had embarked all his wealth in the hope of making great gains when the news came that both were lost. Thus from being a rich man he became all at once so very poor that nothing was left to him but one small plot of land and there he often went in an evening to take his walk and ease his mind of a little of his trouble. One day as he was roaming along in a brown study thinking with no great comfort on what he had been and what he now was and was like to be all on a sudden there stood before him a little rough-looking black dwarf. Prithee friend why so sorrowful said he to the merchant what is it you take so deeply to heart If you would do me any good I would willingly tell you said the merchant. Who knows but I may said the little man tell me what ails you and perhaps you will find I may be of some use. Then the merchant told him how all his wealth was gone to the bottom of the sea and how he had nothing left but that little plot of land. Oh trouble not yourself about that said the dwarf only undertake to bring me here twelve years hence whatever meets you first on your going home and I will give you as much as you please. The merchant thought this was no great thing to ask that it would most likely be his dog or his cat or something of that sort but forgot his little boy Heinel so he agreed to the bargain and signed and sealed the bond to do what was asked of him. But as he drew near home his little boy was so glad to see him that he crept behind him and laid fast hold of his legs and looked up in his face and laughed. Then the father started trembling with fear and horror and saw what it was that he had bound himself to do but as no gold was come he made himself easy by thinking that it was only a joke that the dwarf was playing him and that at any rate