1 It would have been all over with her, likewise, if, by good fortune, a tailor who was travelling in search of work, had not sat down to rest by the brook.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE STRAW, THE COAL, AND THE BEAN 2 The bean thanked him most prettily, but as the tailor used black thread, all beans since then have a black seam.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE STRAW, THE COAL, AND THE BEAN 3 One summer's morning a little tailor was sitting on his table by the window; he was in good spirits, and sewed with all his might.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR 4 The woman came up the three steps to the tailor with her heavy basket, and he made her unpack all the pots for him.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR 5 The little tailor at last lost all patience, and drew a piece of cloth from the hole under his work-table, and saying: 'Wait, and I will give it to you,' struck it mercilessly on them.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR 6 The tailor put on the girdle, and resolved to go forth into the world, because he thought his workshop was too small for his valour.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR 7 But the little tailor was much too weak to hold the tree, and when the giant let it go, it sprang back again, and the tailor was tossed into the air with it.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR 8 The giant made the attempt but he could not get over the tree, and remained hanging in the branches, so that in this also the tailor kept the upper hand.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR 9 The little tailor was willing, and followed him.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR 10 The bed, however, was too big for the little tailor; he did not lie down in it, but crept into a corner.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR 11 With the earliest dawn the giants went into the forest, and had quite forgotten the little tailor, when all at once he walked up to them quite merrily and boldly.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR 12 The little tailor went onwards, always following his own pointed nose.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR 13 The counsel pleased the king, and he sent one of his courtiers to the little tailor to offer him military service when he awoke.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR 14 The soldiers, however, were set against the little tailor, and wished him a thousand miles away.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR 15 He sent to the little tailor and caused him to be informed that as he was a great warrior, he had one request to make to him.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR