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《The Three Little Men in The Wood森林里的三个小矮人》.doc

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The Three Little Men in The Wood There was once a man whose wife died, and a woman whose husband died, and the man had a daughter, and the woman also had a daughter. The girls were acquainted with each other, and went out walking together, and afterwards came to the woman in her house. Then said she to the mans daughter:Listen, tell your father that I would like to marry him, and then you shall wash yourself in milk every morning, and drink wine, but my own daughter shall wash herself in water and drink water. The girl went home, and told her father what the woman had said. The man said:What shall I do? Marriage is a joy and also a torment(痛苦,苦恼).At length as he could come no decision, he pulled off his boot, and said:Take this boot, it has a hole in the sole(鞋底) of it. Go with it up to the loft(阁楼), hang it on the big nail, and then pour water into it. If it hold the water, then I will again take a wife, but if it run through, I will not. The girl did as she was bid(吩咐), but the water drew(牵引) the hole together and the boot became full to the top. She informed her father how it had turned out. Then he himself went up, and the wedding was celebrated. The next morning, when the two girls got up, there stood before the mans daughter milk for her to wash in and wine for her to drink, but before the womans daughter stood water to wash herself with and water for drinking. On the second morning, stood water for washing and water for drinking before the mans daughter as well as before the womans daughter. And on the third morning stood water for washing and water for drinking before the mans daughter, and milk for washing and wine for drinking, before the womans daughter, and so it continued. The woman became her step-daughters(继女) bitterest(痛苦的) enemy, and day by day did her best to treat her still worse. She was also envious because her step-daughter was beautiful and lovely, and her own daughter ugly and repulsive(可憎的,令人厌恶的). Once, in winter, when everything was froz
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