1 The youngest brother likewise met a man who asked him what he wished to do.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE FOUR CLEVER BROTHERS 2 The second brother also met a man, who, when he found out what he was setting out upon, asked him what craft he meant to follow.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE FOUR CLEVER BROTHERS 3 Then he gave him gold and lands and flocks, and made him so rich that his brother's fortune could not at all be compared with his.
4 So each brother went his way; and as the eldest was hastening on a man met him, and asked him where he was going, and what he wanted.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE FOUR CLEVER BROTHERS 5 When he reached home, he knew not upon whom to vent his rage and spite; and at length wicked thoughts came into his head, and he resolved to kill his brother.
6 But the dwarf put the same spell upon him as he put on his elder brother, and he, too, was at last obliged to take up his abode in the heart of the mountains.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE WATER OF LIFE 7 Little Marleen now felt as lighthearted and happy as if her brother were still alive, and she went back to the house and sat down cheerfully to the table and ate.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE JUNIPER-TREE 8 And at last he did so, and in a moment the fox was changed into a man, and turned out to be the brother of the princess, who had been lost a great many many years.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE GOLDEN BIRD 9 When the brother came home, they asked him about the castle of Stromberg, and he told them he would look on his own maps as soon as he had eaten and appeased his hunger.
10 The eldest brother set out, and sought for the pearls the whole day: but the evening came, and he had not found the first hundred: so he was turned into stone as the tablet had foretold.
11 The man now thought he should like to continue his journey, but the giant begged him to remain for a day or two longer until the return of his brother, who was away in search of provisions.
12 When the brother heard of all this, and how a turnip had made the gardener so rich, he envied him sorely, and bethought himself how he could contrive to get the same good fortune for himself.
13 Then she went to Gretel, shook her till she awoke, and cried: 'Get up, lazy thing, fetch some water, and cook something good for your brother, he is in the stable outside, and is to be made fat.'
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In HANSEL AND GRETEL 14 The next day the second brother undertook the task; but he succeeded no better than the first; for he could only find the second hundred of the pearls; and therefore he too was turned into stone.
15 Then their brother, who was a little insignificant dwarf, went out to seek for his brothers: but when he had found them they only laughed at him, to think that he, who was so young and simple, should try to travel through the world, when they, who were so much wiser, had been unable to get on.
16 He met the fox, who gave him the good advice: but when he came to the two inns, his eldest brother was standing at the window where the merrymaking was, and called to him to come in; and he could not withstand the temptation, but went in, and forgot the golden bird and his country in the same manner.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE GOLDEN BIRD 17 The father and little Marleen heard the sound and ran out, but they only saw mist and flame and fire rising from the spot, and when these had passed, there stood the little brother, and he took the father and little Marleen by the hand; then they all three rejoiced, and went inside together and sat down to their dinners and ate.
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