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1Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters; one of them was beautiful and industrious, the other ugly and
2lazy. The mother, however, loved the ugly and lazy one best, because she was her own daughter, and so the other, who was
3only her stepdaughter, was made to do all the work of the house, and was quite the Cinderella of the family. Her
4stepmother sent her out every day to sit by the well in the high road, there to spin until she made her fingers bleed.
5Now it chanced one day that some blood fell on to the spindle, and as the girl stopped over the well to wash it off, the
6spindle suddenly sprang out of her hand and fell into the well. She ran home crying to tell of her misfortune, but her
7stepmother spoke harshly to her, and after giving her a violent scolding, said unkindly, 'As you have let the spindle
8fall into the well you may go yourself and fetch it out.' The girl went back to the well not knowing what to do, and at
9last in her distress she jumped into the water after the spindle. She remembered nothing more until she awoke and found
10herself in a beautiful meadow, full of sunshine, and with countless flowers blooming in every direction. She walked over
11the meadow, and presently she came upon a baker's oven full of bread, and the loaves cried out to her, 'Take us out,
12take us out, or alas! we shall be burnt to a cinder; we were baked through long ago.' So she took the bread-shovel and
13drew them all out. She went on a little farther, till she came to a tree full of apples. 'Shake me, shake me, I pray,'
14cried the tree; 'my apples, one and all, are ripe.' So she shook the tree, and the apples came falling down upon her
15like rain; but she continued shaking until there was not a single apple left upon it. Then she carefully gathered the
16apples together in a heap and walked on again. The next thing she came to was a little house, and there she saw an old
17woman looking out, with such large teeth, that she was terrified, and turned to run away. But the old woman called after
18her, 'What are you afraid of, dear child? Stay with me; if you will do the work of my house properly for me, I will make
19you very happy. You must be very careful, however, to make my bed in the right way, for I wish you always to shake it
20thoroughly, so that the feathers fly about; then they say, down there in the world, that it is snowing; for I am Mother
21Holle.' The old woman spoke so kindly, that the girl summoned up courage and agreed to enter into her service. She took
22care to do everything according to the old woman's bidding and every time she made the bed she shook it with all her
23might, so that the feathers flew about like so many snowflakes. The old woman was as good as her word: she never spoke
24angrily to her, and gave her roast and boiled meats every day. So she stayed on with Mother Holle for some time, and
25then she began to grow unhappy. She could not at first tell why she felt sad, but she became conscious at last of great
26longing to go home; then she knew she was homesick, although she was a thousand times better off with Mother Holle than
27with her mother and sister. After waiting awhile, she went to Mother Holle and said, 'I am so homesick, that I cannot
28stay with you any longer, for although I am so happy here, I must return to my own people.' Then Mother Holle said, 'I
29am pleased that you should want to go back to your own people, and as you have served me so well and faithfully, I will
30take you home myself.' Thereupon she led the girl by the hand up to a broad gateway. The gate was opened, and as the
31girl passed through, a shower of gold fell upon her, and the gold clung to her, so that she was covered with it from
32head to foot. 'That is a reward for your industry,' said Mother Holle, and as she spoke she handed her the spindle which
33she had dropped into the well. The gate was then closed, and the girl found herself back in the old world close to her
34mother's house. As she entered the courtyard, the cock who was perched on the well, called out: 'Cock-a-doodle-doo! Your
35golden daughter's come back to you.' Then she went in to her mother and sister, and as she was so richly covered with
36gold, they gave her a warm welcome. She related to them all that had happened, and when the mother heard how she had
37come by her great riches, she thought she should like her ugly, lazy daughter to go and try her fortune. So she made the
38sister go and sit by the well and spin, and the girl pricked her finger and thrust her hand into a thorn-bush, so that
39she might drop some blood on to the spindle; then she threw it into the well, and jumped in herself. Like her sister she
40awoke in the beautiful meadow, and walked over it till she came to the oven. 'Take us out, take us out, or alas! we
41shall be burnt to a cinder; we were baked through long ago,' cried the loaves as before. But the lazy girl answered, 'Do
42you think I am going to dirty my hands for you?' and walked on. Presently she came to the apple-tree. 'Shake me, shake
43me, I pray; my apples, one and all, are ripe,' it cried. But she only answered, 'A nice thing to ask me to do, one of
44the apples might fall on my head,' and passed on. At last she came to Mother Holle's house, and as she had heard all
45about the large teeth from her sister, she was not afraid of them, and engaged herself without delay to the old woman.
46The first day she was very obedient and industrious, and exerted herself to please Mother Holle, for she thought of the
47gold she should get in return. The next day, however, she began to dawdle over her work, and the third day she was more
48idle still; then she began to lie in bed in the mornings and refused to get up. Worse still, she neglected to make the
49old woman's bed properly, and forgot to shake it so that the feathers might fly about. So Mother Holle very soon got
50tired of her, and told her she might go. The lazy girl was delighted at this, and thought to herself, 'The gold will
51soon be mine.' Mother Holle led her, as she had led her sister, to the broad gateway; but as she was passing through,
52instead of the shower of gold, a great bucketful of pitch came pouring over her. 'That is in return for your services,'
53said the old woman, and she shut the gate. So the lazy girl had to go home covered with pitch, and the cock on the well
54called out as she saw her: 'Cock-a-doodle-doo! Your dirty daughter's come back to you.' But, try what she would, she
55could not get the pitch off and it stuck to her as long as she lived. LITTLE RED-CAP [LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD] Once upon
56a time there was a dear little girl who was loved by everyone who looked at her, but most of all by her grandmother, and
57there was nothing that she would not have given to the child. Once she gave her a little cap of red velvet, which suited
58her so well that she would never wear anything else; so she was always called 'Little Red-Cap.' One day her mother said
59to her: 'Come, Little Red-Cap, here is a piece of cake and a bottle of wine; take them to your grandmother, she is ill
60and weak, and they will do her good. Set out before it gets hot, and when you are going, walk nicely and quietly and do
61not run off the path, or you may fall and break the bottle, and then your grandmother will get nothing; and when you go
62into her room, don't forget to say, "Good morning", and don't peep into every corner before you do it.' 'I will take
63great care,' said Little Red-Cap to her mother, and gave her hand on it. The grandmother lived out in the wood, half a
64league from the village, and just as Little Red-Cap entered the wood, a wolf met her. Red-Cap did not know what a wicked
65creature he was, and was not at all afraid of him.
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