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Title: The fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Grimm, Jacob, 1785-1863 Grimm, Wilhelm, 1786-1859 Rackham, Arthur, 1867-1939, ill
Subjects: Fairy tales Folklore -- Germany
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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ALES you it will be the worse for you. He certainly invited you to supper, but only with the intention of cutting off both your ears. You can hear him sharpening his knife now. The guest heard the knife being sharpened, and hurried off down the steps as fast as he could. Grethel ran with great agility to her Master, shrieking, A fine guest you have invited, indeed ! Why, what's the matter, Grethel ? What do you mean ? Well, she said, he has taken the two fowls that I had just put upon the dish, and run off with them. Thats a clever trick ! said her Master, regretting his fine fowls. If he had only left me one so that I had something to eat. He called out to him to stop, but the guest pretended not to hear. Then he ran after him, still holding the carving-knife, and cried, Only one, only one ! — meaning that the guest should leave him one fowl; but the guest only thought that he meant he was to give him one ear, and he ran as if he was pursued by fire, and so took both his ears safely home. 140
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The Old Man and his Grandson THERE was once a very old Man, so old that his eyes had become dim, and his limbs trembled. When he sat at table his hands shook so that he could hardly hold his spoon, and sometimes he spilt soup on the tablecloth. This vexed his son and daughter-in-law, and they would no longer let him have a place at the table, but made him sit in a corner by the stove. They gave him his food in an earthen ware bowl, and a very scanty portion too. He sat in his place looking at the others at table, and the tears came into his eyes. One day his trembling hands could no longer hold the bowl; it fell to the ground and broke to atoms. The young wife scolded him, but he said nothing; then she bought him a wooden bowl for a few coppers, and he had nothing else to eat from. As they were sitting together one day, the little Grandson, who was four years old, collected a lot of bits of wood. What are you doing there ? asked his Father. I am making a little trough, answered the Child, for you

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