M.B - Fiction 79

A king was dying. An old man told his sons that the water of life would save him. Each one set out in turn. The two older ones, setting out in hopes of being the heir, were rude ……続きを見る

Once upon time, there was an old woodcutter and his young son. The woodcutter always wanted his son to go to school but they didn't have enough money, and after a few years he had to come ……続きを見る

3 travelingarmy surgeons who perform surgery on themselves to impress an innkeeper. After removing their own organs, they will put them back in the morning.... 続きを見る

A beautiful but poor servant girl traveled with the family she worked for when robbers attacked them. She hid behind a tree, but no one else survived. She lamented her fate, and a dove came to her w……続きを見る

A couple had no children while they were rich, but when they became poor, they had a son, and the father could find no one for a godfather except a beggar. The beggar named the boy Ferdina……続きを見る

Somehow the boat was still afloat - another wave had lifted it clear of the first rock and was driving it further inshore. It bumped against the base of Crab Rock and skewed around, then tipped mome……続きを見る

A lazy woman did not like to spin and when she did, did not wind onto a reel, but left it on the bobbin. Her husband complained, and she said she needed a reel to do that, but when he went to cut on……続きを見る

Blade is back in the city he hates and fears. His enemies have taken Jaz, the little girl who has become the centre of his life, and he knows they've brought her here. He has to get her back - but e……続きを見る

Scramble is a little otter who can't swim. At the beginning of the story, we find him in the middle of writing a list. It's his Can-do and Can't-do List. The Can't-do side just says 'Swimming'. One ……続きを見る

A woman, her daughter, and her stepdaughter were cutting fodder when the Lord came up to them and asked the way to the village. The woman and the daughter refused, and the stepdaughter off……続きを見る

In former times there lived an aged Queen who was a sorceress, and her daughter was the most beautiful maiden under the sun.... 続きを見る

East India was besieged by an enemy who would not retire until he had received six hundred dollars... 続きを見る

A King sends a huntsman into a forest nearby, and the huntsman never returns. The King sends more men into the forest, each meeting with the same fate. The King sends a……続きを見る

Pif-Paf-Poltrie asks Fair Katrinelje's father for leave to marry her. He is told he needs that of "her mother Milk-Cow, her brother High-Pride, her sister Cheese-Love," as well as her own.……続きを見る

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A long long time ago there lived a mother and her son. The son told the mother that he wanted to go out a traveling. The mother was very worried about it since they were very poor. The son told her ……続きを見る

A lazy girl tore out handfuls of flax when she found a knot while spinning. Her industrious servant gathered them and made a gown... 続きを見る

An unnamed, orphaned girl is poor and homeless; she has only her clothing and a loaf of bread that a kindhearted soul has given her. She is a goodhearted person, however, and so she goes out into th……続きを見る

Henry was so lazy he minded his only task, driving a goat to pasture and back. He married Fat Trina so she would drive both his and her goats. Trina proposed trading the goats for a hive, which woul……続きを見る

In the time when our Lord still walked this earth, he and St. Peter stopped one evening at a smith's and received free quarters...続きを見る

How fortunate is the master, and how well all goes in his house.. 続きを見る

In the time of Schlauraffen I went there, and saw Rome and the Lateran... 続きを見る

A woman had three daughters: The eldest had one eye in the middle of her forehead, the second had two eyes like ordinary people, the third had three eyes; two on the sides of her head and a third in……続きを見る

What do you send your alien pen pal Clunk to make it clear you do not want an alien pen pal? You send him your big sister. That'll teach Clunk to have a pen pal from Earth-or so our intrepid narrato……続きを見る

A wood-cutter told his wife to have his oldest daughter bring him his dinner in the woods. She lost her way and in the night found a house with a gray-haired man and a hen, a cock, and a brindl……続きを見る

In former days every sound had its meaning and application. When the smith's hammer resounded, it cried, "Strike away! strike away." When the carpenter's plane grated, it said, "Here goes! here goes……続きを見る

A brother and sister had a stepmother who hated them. One day, they were playing a counting-out game in a meadow by a pool, and their stepmother turned the boy into a fish and the girl into a lamb..……続きを見る

A king's daughter was ill, and it was foretold she would be made well by eating an apple. The king declared that whoever brought the apple to cure her would marry her. A peasant with three ……続きを見る

A tailor and a goldsmith were travelling together, and one evening when the sun had sunk behind the mountains...続きを見る

Three women were changed to identical flowers... 続きを見る