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关于格林童话英语故事欣赏 Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm One day the rooster said to his hens, Go into the kitchen and pick up the breadcrumbs from the table. Our mistress has gone out visiting. the hens said, No, no, we wont go. If our mistress finds out, she will beat us. then the rooster said, She wont know anything about it. Come on. She never gives us anything good. then the hens said once again, No, no. Not ever. We are not going in there. But the rooster would give them no peace until they finally got onto the table and began to eat the breadcrumbs with all their might. Just then the mistress came home, quickly took hold of a stick, drove them off the table and gave them a good beating. Once outside the house, the hens said to the rooster, Dont you see, see, see, see, see, see, see? the rooster laughed and said, Didnt I know it, know it, know it? And they went their way. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Once upon a time there was a clever, wily peasant, whose tricks could be much talkedabout. The best story, however, is how he once got the best of the devil and made a fool ofhim. One day the peasant had been working in his field, and just as it was getting dark he wasgetting ready to go home when in the middle of his field he saw a pile of burning coals. Filledwith amazement he walked toward it, and sitting on the top of the glowing coals there was alittle black devil. You must be sitting on a treasure, said the peasant. Yes indeed, replied the devil, on a treasure that contains more gold and silver than youhave ever seen in your life. the treasure is in my field and belongs to me, said the peasant. It is yours, answered the devil, if for two years you will give me one half of everythingyour field produces. I have enough money, but I have a desire for the fruits of the earth. the peasant entered into the bargain, saying, To prevent any dispute from arising aboutthe division, everything above the ground shal