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1、TheLittleShepherd小羊倌The Little ShepherdThere was once a shepherd boy no bigger than a mite and as mean as could be On his way out to pasture one day, he passed a poultry dealer carrying a basket of eggs on her head So what did he do but throw a stone into the basket and break every single egg Enrage
2、d, the poor woman screamed a curse: You shall get no bigger until youve found lovely Bargaglina of the three singing apples!From that time on, the shepherd boy grew thin and puny, and the more his mother attended to him, the punier he became Finally she asked, What on earth has happened to you? Have
3、 you done a bad turn for which someone placed a curse on you? He then told her about his meanness to the poultry dealer, repeating the womans words to him, You shall get no bigger until youve found lovely Bargaglina of the three singing apples!In that case, said his mother, youve no choice but to go
4、 in search of this lovely BargaglinaThe shepherd set out He came to a bridge, on which a little lady was rocking to and fro in a walnut shellWho goes there?A friendLift my eyelids a little, so I can see youIm seeking lovely Bargaglina of the three singing apples Do you know anything about her?No, bu
5、t take this stone; it will come in handyThe shepherd came to another bridge, where another little lady was bathing in an eggshellWho goes there?A friendLift my eyelids a little, so I can see youIm seeking lovely Bargaglina of the three singing apples Have you any news of her?No, but take this ivory
6、comb, which will come in handyThe shepherd put it in his pocket and walked on until he came to a stream where a man was filling a bag with fog When asked about lovely Bargaglina, the man claimed to know nothing about her, but he gave the shepherd a pocketful of fog, which would come in handyNext he
7、came to a mill whose miller, a talking fox, said, Yes, I know who lovely Bargaglina is, but youll have difficulty finding her Walk straight ahead until you come to a house with the door open Go inside and youll see a crystal cage hung with many little bells In the cage are the singing apples You mus
8、t take the cage, but watch out for a certain old woman If her eyes are open, that means shes asleep If theyre closed, shes surely awakeThe shepherd moved on He found the old woman with her eyes closed and realized she was awake My lad, said the old woman, glance down in my hair and see if Ive any li
9、ceHe looked, and as he was delousing her, she opened her eyes and he knew she had fallen asleep So he quickly picked up the crystal cage and fled But the little bells on the cage tinkled, and the old woman awakened and sent a hundred horsemen after him Hearing them almost upon him, the shepherd drop
10、ped the stone he had in his pocket It changed instantly into a steep, rocky mountain, and the horses all fell and broke their legsNow horseless, the cavalrymen returned to the old woman, who then sent out two hundred mounted soldiers Seeing himself in new peril, the shepherd threw down the ivory com
11、b It turned into a mountain as slick as glass, down which horses and riders all slid to their deathThe old woman then sent three hundred horsemen after him, but he pulled out the pocketful of fog, hurled it over his shoulder, and the army got lost in it Meanwhile, the shepherd had grown thirsty and,
12、 having nothing with him to drink, removed one of the three apples from the cage and cut into it A tiny voice said, Gently, please, or youll hurt me Gently, he finished cutting the apple, ate one half, and put the other in his pocket At length he came to a well near his house, where he reached into
13、his pocket for the rest of the apple In its place was a tiny, tiny ladyIm lovely Bargaglina, she said, and I like cake Go get me a cake, Im famishedThe well was one of those closed wells, with a hole in the center, so the shepherd seated the lady on the rim, telling her to wait there until he came b
14、ack with the cakeMeanwhile, a servant known as Ugly Slave came to the well for water She spied the lovely little lady and said, How come youre so little and beautiful while Im so big and ugly? And she grew so furious that she threw the tiny creature into the wellThe shepherd returned and was heartbr
15、oken to find lovely Bargaglina goneNow his mother also went to that well for water, and what should she find in her bucket one day but a fish She took it home and fried it They ate it and threw the bones out the window There where they fell, a tree grew up and got so big that it shut out all the lig
16、ht from the house The shepherd therefore cut it down and chopped it up for firewood, which he brought inside By that time his mother had died, and he lived there all by himself, now punier then ever, since no matter what he tried, he couldnt grow any bigger Every day he went out to the pasture and came back home at night How great was his amazement upon finding the dishes and pa
