The brave little tailor

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. Then came a peasant woman down the street crying, "Good jams, cheap. Good jams, cheap."

This rang pleasantly in the tailor's ears, he stretched his delicate head out of the window, and called, "Come up here, dear woman, here you will get rid of your goods."

THE FROG - PRINCE

One fine evening a young princess put on her bonnet and clogs, and went out to take a walk by herself in a wood; and when she came to a cool spring of water, that rose in the midst of it, she sat herself down to rest a while. Now she had a golden ball in her hand, which was her favourite plaything; and she was always tossing it up into the air, and catching it again as it fell. After a time she threw it up so high that she missed catching it as it fell; and the ball bounded away, and rolled along upon the ground, till at last it fell down into the spring. The princess looked into the spring after her ball, but it was very deep, so deep that she could not see the bottom of it. Then she began to bewail her loss, and said, ‘Alas! if I could only get my ball again, I would give all my fine clothes and jewels, and everything that I have in the world.’

THE BREMEN TOWN MUSICIANS

There was a man who owned a donkey, which had carried his sacks to the mill industriously for many years, but whosestrength had come to an end, so that the poor beast grew more and more unfit for work. The master determined to stop his food, but the donkey, discovering that there was no good intended to him, ran away and took the road to Bremen: "There," thought he, "I can turn Town Musician."
When he had gone a little way, he found a hound lying on the road and panting, like one who was tired with running. 

"Hollo! what are youpanting so for, worthy Seize 'em?" asked the donkey.

HANSEL & GRETEL

Hard by a great forest dwelt a poor wood-cutter with his wife and his two children. The boy was called Hansel and the girl Gretel. He had little to bite and to break, and once when great dearth fell on the land, he could no longer procure even daily bread. Now when he thought over this by night in his bed, and tossed about in his anxiety, he groaned and said to his wife: ‘What is to become of us? How are we to feed our poor children, when we no longer have anything even for ourselves?’

Rapunzel

There were once a man and a woman who had long in vain wished for a

child. At length, the woman hoped that God was about to grant her desire.

These people had a little window at the back of their house from which

a splendid garden could be seen, which was full of the most beautiful

flowers and herbs. It was, however, surrounded by a high wall, and no

one dared to go into it because it belonged to an enchantress, who had

great power and was dreaded by all the world. One day the woman was

standing by this window and looking down into the garden, when she saw a

bed which was planted with the most beautiful rampion (rapunzel), and it

looked so fresh and green that she longed for it, she quite pined away,

and began to look pale and miserable. Then her husband was alarmed, and

asked: ‘What ails you, dear wife?’

LITTLE SNOW WHITE

 It was in the middle of winter when the broad flakes of snow were

falling around, that a certain queen sat working at her window, the

frame of which was made of fine black ebony; and, as she was looking out

upon the snow, she pricked her finger, and three drops of blood fell

upon it. Then she gazed thoughtfully down on the red drops which

sprinkled the white snow and said, 

"Would that my little daughter may be

as white as that snow, as red as the blood, and as black as the ebony

window-frame!"