格林童话两个神秘的小鞋匠概述 格林童话:the Stolen Farthing两枚硬币

格林童话:the Stolen Farthing两枚硬币  

the Stolen Farthing两枚硬币
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Once a father was seated at the dinner table with his wife and children. A good friend who had e to visit was eating with them. While they were sitting there the clock struck elve
and the stranger saw the door open and a very pale little child dressed in snow-white clothes e in. It neither looked around
nor did it speak
but went straight into the next room. Soon afterwards it came back
and just as silently went out the door again.
On the second and on the third day it came back in exactly the same manner. Then the stranger finally asked the father
whose beautiful child it was that went into the next room every day at noon.
"I did not see it
" he said
adding that he did he know whose child it might be.
the next day when it again came
the stranger pointed it out to the father
but the latter did not see it
nor did the mother and the children see anything. Then the stranger got up
went to the door of the room
opened it a little
and looked in. There he saw the child sitting on the floor
and busily digging and rooting about in the cracks in the floor. When it saw the stranger
it disappeared.
He now told what he had seen and described the child exactly. Then the mother recognized it
and said
"Oh
it is my dear child who died four weeks ago."
they ripped up the floor and found o farthings which the child had once received from its mother to give to a poor man. It
however
had thought
"With that money you can buy yourself a piece of zwieback
" and had kept the farthings
hiding them in the cracks in the floor.
therefore it had had no rest in its grave
and had e every day at noon to look for these farthings. Then the parents gave the money to a poor man
and after that the child was never seen again.