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영어 동화 100편
1. The dog and his bone.(개와 뼈다귀)
A dog was crossing a bridge.
He had bone in his mouth.
He was looking down the stream and saw another dog with bone in his mouth.
"Humm! That dog has a bone ,too.
His bone looks bigger than mine."
Bark ! Bark! Give me the bone."
Oh the poor greedy dog!
His bone was gone forever.
2.Goldilocks and 3 bears.(골드락스와 곰 세마리)
The bear family returned to ther house.
"Some body ate my soup" the mama bay cried out.
Little Goldilocks woke outto the bear family.
"Help me!"
Somesouted and ran out of the house.
3. The old lion and the fox.(늙은 사자와 여우)
There was an old lion.
Once he was the king of the jungle.
But now he was lying sick in his den.
Many animals visited him,but he ate them one by one.
One sunny day, a fox was passing by the den.
the old lion told the fox to come in to his den.
But the fox said "No"
"I can see tracks ony going inside but not coming out."
Then the fox hurried away.
4. the ugly Duckling(미운 오리 새끼)
the ugly ducklng saw some beautiful swans swimming.
He didn,t want to bewith other ducks ever again.
He thought he,drather be killed b y the swans.
So he cried out,"Kill me" and bet his head down.
Then he saw his image in the clear water.
He wasn,t an ugly duckling anymore.
He was beautiful swan.
Some children saw him and shouted, 'Look at the beautiful swan"
The beautiful swan was really happy.
5.The bear and two friends.(곰과 친구 두사람)
Two friends were traveling.
One day, they met a bear on the path.
One friend climed up a tree.
But the friend couldn,t run away, so he fell flat on the ground.
The bear sniffed him and went away.
After the bear had gone, the friend came down from the tree.
He asked his friend.
What the bear said "Never travel wth a friend who deserts you in danger."
6. The ants and the grasshopper.(개미와 베짱이)
While a grasshopper spet the summer singing songs,
the ant kept gathering grain for the long winter.
On a fine winter day, when the ant were busy the grain,
the hungry grasshopper came to beg for some food.
"Give me some food, please."
If you spent summer being foolish,
you should dance all day without food in winter",
the said to the grasshopper.
"Iwas so foolish!"
tThe grasshopper burst into tears.
7. The gingerbread man.(생강빵 남자)
The gingerbread man arived at the river.
A fox came over to himand sad,
"I can help you.I won,t eat you."
The gingerbread man gotwet,
the fox told him to jump on his back.
When the gingerbread man got wet again,
the fox told him to jump on his nose.
As soon as they got to the other side of the river,
the fox snapped up the gingerbread man.
8. The fox and sour grapes.
A hungry fox found grapevine.
He saw the grapes on the vine.
"I love grapes. They look great. They taste great,too."
But he couldn,t reach them no matter how hard he tried.
He even shouted at the grapes, but the grapes were still high up.
"The grapes must taste sour,"
the hungry fox said tohimself, and then he went away.
9. The 3 billygoats.(우락 부락한 염소 3형제)
The big billy goat came on to the wooden bridge.
He was so heavy that the bridge made squeaky sounds.
The firece troll stopped him.
"Who crosses my bridge?"
"It,s the billy goat Gruff<" shouted the goat.
You can,t cross my bridge.
I,ll eat you up." the troll said.
"I have 2 horns,"the billy goat said.
He charged the roll with his horns.
The troll rushed at billy goat.
The goat tossed the troll over the bridge with his horns.
The troll fell down in to the river.
10. An ass and a horse.(노새와 말)
A big horse and a little ass were traveling together with his master.
The hors didn,t carry anything, but the was carrying lots of things.
"Please help me. The road is too heavy,"
the ass sais sadly to the horse.
"No. It,s yours, not mine." the horse said.
Soon the ass fell down and died.
The master moved all the roed of the ass to thye back of the horse.
"I was so stupid. If I had helped the ass now
I could be carrying a lifhter load" the horse lamented.
11.the fox and the crow
A crow was sitting on the tree.
the crow had a piece of the cheese in her beak.
A hungry fox saw the crow.
the fox look up at the crow on the tree and said
"You are so beautiful"
The crow was very happy and opened her mouth to sing.
As soon as she opened her mouth, the cheese fell to the ground.
The fox snatched up the cheese and ran away.
12. The magic cooking pot.(마술 요리 냄비)
An old woman gave a poor girl a magic cooking pot.
One day, when the girl was not in her house,
her mother wanted to have some prridge.
"Boil, boil, little pot"
Her mother sad the magic words.
The pot started boiling some prridge.
But she didn,t know how to spot it.
The porridge boiled over and flowed on to the floor.
The porridge fiowed down the hill and into the village.
The girl returned home "Stop,stop, little pot"
she souted.
The prridge stopped flowing over.
13.The boy who cried wolf.(양치기 소년)
A shepherd boy was so bored. He called out to the villagers."Wolf,wolf!"
The villagers came running to help him.
But it was a lie. They went back to the village grumbling.
The boy found it was so muchfun that he called out to the villagers again.
"Wolf,wolf!"
The villagers came running to help him.
But they went back to the village grumbling again.
Soon awolf really came. The wolf killed the sweep.
The boy cried, Wolf,wolf"
But no one came to his help.
14.The goose thatlaid golden eggs
There was lucky man who had special goose.
Every day, the goose laid shinning, golden eggs.
But, the man felt the goose was too slow.
'You must lay eggs faster"
the man scolded the goose.
But the goose stilllaid eggs too slowly.
The man couldn,t any more.
So he killed the goose to find the golden store.
But nothing was inside her.
The greedy man was too late to learn that he had been blessed.
15. Cin derella
The prince ordered his man,
"Bring me the lady who owns his glass slipper"
Rhe man knocked on everydoor.
At last, he came to Cinderella house.
Her 2 sisters tried to force theie feet into the slipper,
but they didn,t succeed.
"Let me try it"
cinderella said to him.
The slipper was a perfect fit.
Her 2 sisters were greatly surprised.
But they were more surprised
when cinderella pulled out the other slipper from her pocket.
16.The lion and mouse.
A little mousewoke up a sleeping lion.
The lion grabbed the mouse by its tail.
"Mr, lion, please let me go.
Someday I,ll repay your gratitude"
The lion laughed and let him go.
Some days later, the lion was captureed by a huner and tied to a tree.
The mouse happened to see the lion.
He gnawed through the ropes with his teeth and set the lion tree.
"The strong and the weak must help each other" the mouse said.
17.The fox without tail.
A fox got caught in a trap and lost his tail.
After that, his friends laughed at him.
"If the other foxes had their tails cut off,
they wouldn,t make fun of me any more," the fox thought.
So he called the other foxestogrther and sais,
"Why are yoy wearing those heavy tails?
They don,t look pretty. They aren,t useful.
Cut off your tails"
Haring this, an old fox said,
You never spoke like that before you lostyour tail.
We prefer carrying our tails to cutting them off.
18.the fox and hedgehog(여우와 고슴도치)
A fox met a hedgehog.
"How talents do you have?"
the fox said.
"Only 3. How about you?" the hdgehog said.
"I have 77." the fox boasted.
As they kept walking togrther, they fell into a hole.
"Please help me get out of here.
Then I,ll help you." the hedgehog said.
So the fox helped the hedgehog get out of the hole
and then asked the hedgehog to help him.
"How can I be helpful to you if you can,t help yourself with77 talents?"
the hedgehog said and then went away.
19. The fox and the stork(여우와 황새)
The fox invited the stork to dinner.
The fox just gaved the stork some soup in a broad, flat dish.
"Help yourself to the soup" the fox said.
The stork tried to taste the soup,but the just dripped down from his longbill.
The stork, in turn, invited the fox to dinner.
The stork gave the fox some soup in a toll jar with long, narrow neck.
the fox tried to put his mouthin the bottle, but he couldn,t do it.
20. the fox, the cock and the dog
One night, a fox was prowling around farm.
He saw a cock sitting high beyond his reach.
"Good news!" the fox shouted.
"King lion ordered us beastsnot to hert birds any more. Now you and I are friends"
"Thats really good news" the cock said.
"I want to share the good news with my friends. Let,s see who is coming.
Oh, I can see my master,s dog coming towards us"
The fox began to run away when he heaed that
."I,m sure the dog hasn,theard the news yet" the fox said.
21. Hensel and Gretel
H and G followed a bird until they reached a little house made with bread and cakes.
They started to nibble at the house.
A soft voce came from the house at that moment."Who is eating my house?"
"The wind, " the children answered.
They continued to eat without disturbing themselves.
Suddenly, the door opened.
A very old woman crept out from the house.
22. Bellin the cat(고양이목에 방울달기)
The mice had a meeting on how to be safe from the cat.
"I,mafraid of the cat. He cut my tail off" one mouse said.
The mice talked and talked butcouldn,t think of a good idea.
"How about putting a bell on the neckof the cat?
The bell will tell us he,s coming" a youngmouse said.
"What a good idea!" everyday agreed with them.
Suddenly, an old mouse stood up and said,
"Well,who will put bell on the neck of the cat?"
23. Counry mouse and city mouse.
The country mouse went to the city mouse,s house.
The city mouse took him to the kitchen,
and they had some delicious food togrther.
At that moment, they heard a dog barkling outside.
The country mouse was shocked at the sound.
After while, the door flew open, and a big dog came into the kitchen.
"Run! Run!" the city mouse shouted.
They ran into the nearest hole.
The country mouse said to the city mouse,
'I miss the country. I won,t come back to the city"
24. Pandora and mysterious chest
Pandora kept wondering what was inside the chest.
Her curiosity got stronger day by day.
At last, Pandora opened the chest.
At first, there was sudden silence.
But soon, the room was filled with screaming voices.
Dreadful creatures were all of the room.
Pandora was so terriified and didn,t know what to do.
But after some time, she managed to close the lid of the chest.
There was only one good thing left in the chest.
It was hope.
25. The 2 crabs
One day, mama crab and baby crab went out
and took a walk on the beautiful sand.
"My dear," mama crab said, "I,m proud of you, but try to walk gracefully.
Don,t walk from side to side.
You shulid walk straigh."
"Mama" Baby crab said, :
If you show me how to walk straight, I,ll just follow you"
26.The haire and the tortoise
A quick hare often made fun of a slow tortoise.
One day, the tortoise said to the hare,
"Let,s have a race" "Why not?" the hare said.
The race started the next morning.
The hare left tortoisefar behind.
The hare got sleeply during the race.
He decided to take a nap for a while.
When the hare woke up. he couldn,t see the tortoise anywhere.
The tortoise was waiting for the hare at the finish line.
27. William tell
"You didn,t bow to my hat, so you must be punished,
but I,ll give you a chance.
I heard you are very good masksman.
Showme you can shoot an apple from your son,s head"
the governor ordered WillamTell.
Williamtell was very trrified, but he had no choice.
His son sat beside a tree with an apple on his head.
He took an arrow from his quiver.
He took aim slowly and released the arrow.
The apple fell to the ground.
The arrow pierced the core of the apple.
28. The Bundle of sticks
An old man felt he was dying.
He calledhis 3 sons into the room.
He ordered his servant to bring a bundle of wooden sticks.
"Break it" the father ordered his eldest son.
The son tried his best, but he couldn,t break the sticks.
"Each of you pick up a stick. Then break them."
the father ordered again.
The sons untied the bundle and then each one picked up a stick.
As they strained, the sticks broke easily.
"You know what I mean?"
the father said to his sons.
29. King Arthur and Excalibur
King broke his sword during a war.
So he was very depressed. His old adviser took him to the lady of the lake.
"My lady, I broke my sword. I need Excalibur" King said.
"Do you think you deserve the sword? If so, I,ll give you the sword.
But rtuen it to the lake when you finish your work"
A hand appeared from the water and give him Excalibur.
30. The ass in the lion,s skin
An ass found a lion,s skin which a hunter had put in the sun to dry.
The ass put on the lion,s skin and walked through the forest.
The ass scared all the little animalls.
He was so proud of himself.
He had much fun scaring the other animals.
The ass also tried to scare a fox.
But the fox recognized himby his voice.
"You look like a lion, but you sound like an ass"
31. Snow white.
Snow white kept growing. She became more beautiful than the queen.
One day, the queen asked the mirror.
"Mirror,mirror, who,s the fairest in this room.
But Snowwhite is the fairest of all".
The queen grew green with envy.
After that, she hated Snowwhite very much.
32. The crow and the pitcher.
A thirsty crow saw a pitcher of water.
"I have got you" he sang happily.
But the couldn,t drink the water.
The water was justhalf full, and the mouth of pitcher was too narrow,
so he couldn,t puthis beak into the pitcher.
Suddenly, a good idear came to him.
He took some pebbles and dropped them into the pitcher.
The more pebbles he dropped, the higher the water went.
At last, he could drink the water.
33. Stone soup.
Some soldiers came back from war.
They were very tired and hungly.
But the villagers would not share their food with them.
"I have a good idear" a soldier said.
The soldier told the villagers that they could make stone soup.
The villagers wondered what stone soup was.
The soliers put some water and stones in a pot.
A woman brought salt and pepper for the soup.
Potatos, meat,and more came after.
"Yummy" The soldiers and the villagers had a delicious meal together.
34. The milkmade and her pail.
The milkmade was going to market to sell her milk.
She was carrying a pail of milk on her head.
As she walked along, she though about
what she would do with money she would get for the milk.
"I will buysome chicken. The chicken willlay eggs, and then I will sell the eggs.
With the money, I will buy a pretty, new dress and a hat.
Whenever I go to the market, many handsome young men will come and speak to me!
But I will not care about them.
I will toss my head like this"
As she spoke, she tossed her head back.
The pail of milk fell down.
The milkmade,s dream spilled on the street.
35. King Solomon,s judgement.
Two women with baby came to king Solomon.
"his baby is mine," one woman said.
"No she ,s lying. The baby is mine." another woman shouted.
King Solomon thought for a while, and then said,
"Cut the baby in half, and give half to each woman."
"No, no. Please give the baby to thatwoman," the second woman cried.
"Now I know who the real mother is."
King Solomon o\pointed to the second woman.
36. The cat girl.
"Can a living thing change its nature?"
Jupiter and Venus asked.
"Yes, I think so," Jupiter said.
"No, I don,t think so,
Venus said.
They agreed to have a test.
Jupiter turned a cat into a girl,and made her a bridge.
The wedding was going on.
The cat girl behaved really well.
Just then, Venus had a mouse run into the room.
The cat girl jumped up from her seat andtried to catch the mouse.
"Nature doesn,t change." Venus said.
37. The farmer and snake.
One winter day, a farmer saw a snake freezing from the cold.
"I,m freezing to death. Please hold me," the snake said.
"Wait will I do if you bite me?" the farmer asked.
"Nonsense! i won,t do that if you save me," the sanke said.
The farmer held him tight, and soon the snake got better.
But then the snake bite the farmer.
"Ah, how can you do this to me? I saved your life," cried the farmer.
"A snake is always a snake. You forgot that"
the sanake answered.
38. Footfrint in the snow.
An old man was looking out the window.
"It,s so beautiful. I don,t want to dirty up the snow. How can I grt to the rabbi?"
He happened to see his two sons sleeping" Oh I have good idear."
He woke up his sons.
The sons lifted their father upon their shoulders and went to the rabbi,s house.
The sons carried their father home,too.
The old man sawthe footprintsin the snow in front of his house and got angry.
"Who made those terrible footprints?""
39. Lion in love.
A lion fell in love with a preety girl.
He went to her parents and said,
'Please let me marry her."
Her father said
"We,re really happy to have a great son-in-law like you.
But we,re afraid that your sharfclaws, and big teeth might hur our daughter.
If you have your claws and teefh pulled out, then you can be our son-in-law."
The lion loved her too much, so he had his claws and his teeth pulled out.
Then he came back to see her parents again.
Her parents just laughted at him.
40. Jack and beanstalk.
Jack began to climb up and up the beanstalk.
Jack saw a castle at the top.
"Could you give me some food?" he said to the giant,s wife standing at the door.
"Yes. But you should be careful.
My husband will eat you when he returns."
She gave hima hearty meal.
Suddenly, they heard a terrible knock at the door.
"Hide! My husband is back!" the giant,s wife shouted.
As soon as she opened the door, the giant said,
"Fee, fi, fo, fum, I smell the blood of a kid.
Be he alive, or be he dead, I'will grind his borns to make my bread."
41. The wolf in sheep,s clothing.(양의 탈을 쓴 늑대)
A wolf saw some sheep in the meadow.
But he could't get close to them because of the shepherd and his dogs.
One day, the wolf found the skin of a sheep.
He stale the skin and put it on.
"I am such a lovely sheep."
the wolf said.
He walked along the sheep.
Soon, a lamb began to follow the wolf.
He led it somewhere and then ate it.
The wolf ate some more lambs after that.
42. The wolf and 7 kids.
Someone knocked at the door.
(Knock! Knock!) "Who's there?"
"It's me."
"Me? who?"
"It's mother,"
the wolf bleated like the goat's mom.
"Show us your foot,"said a kid.
The foot really looked like their mother.s.
But there was a hole in the wall, and the kids saw the wolf throufh it.
"Go away, you bad wolf." the kids shouted.
43. The fisherman and little fish.
A fisherman fished all day long but only caught one little fish.
"It is so small" the fisherman muttered.
"You are right," said the little fish.
"I am too small for you to eat. Please let me go."
I'll grow soon. Then you make a big meal of me."
"No, little fish," said the fisherman.
"You sound great, But I don't think I'll see you again."
The fisherman put little fish in a pail and hurried home.
44. Adam and Eve.
"The fruit will make you wise like God," the snake told Eve.
Eve stepped forward to the tree.
The fruit smelled good. She picked the fruit and took a bite of it.
When Adam returned, Eve gave the fruit to him.
But as soon as they ate the fruit, they felt shy for the first time.
They found fig leaves and covered themselves.
45. The eagle and the kite.
"You look so said. What's wrong with you?" the kite asked the eagle.
"I can be your friend, I can even bring an ostrich for you,"the kite boasted.
So the eagle and the kite became friends. Soon the eagle said,
"Bring me an ostrich as you said."
The kite flew high and went away,
But it just brought a little mouse to the eagle.
"You aren,t faithful friend," the eagle blamed the kite.
"I didn,t care whether I could keep my promise.
I just told a lie to be your friend," the kite said.
46. The emperror's new clothes.
The two men looked busy cutting and sewing something.
But there was nothing in the room.
"The clothes are ready," they said at last.
The 2 men came into the room as if they were holding something.
"My king, please look at these beautiful clothes. These are as light as a spider,s web," they said proudly.
The king took off his clothes and put on the new clothes.
"Marvelous!" "Fantastic!"
The people in the room cheered.
47. The peacock who complained to juno.
One day, a peacock complained to juno.
"Goddess, I hate my voice.Nightinggales don,t look pretty, but everybody loves their voices."
Juno replied angrliy.
"Be quiet! You look as beautiful as a jewel. Yo give joy to people.s eyes.
No animals can have all abilites.
We gods give each of you just one gift. If you don,t stop complaining,
I,ll take your beautiful feathers away."
48.The rabbi and wagon driver.
The wagon driver said to the rabbi,
"Rabbi, I,m so sad. People always admire you but ignore me.
If I could your clothing, they would think I,m the rabbi and would admire me."
The rabbi said, " Good! Let's switch clothing .
But what will you do if people ask you a difficult question?
"Don't worry." the driver said.
They arrived at the village.
The villagers welcomed the driver but ignored the rabbi.
The villagers asked a very difficult question to the driver.
"It's so easy that even my driver knows the answer. Go, and ask him."
the driver answered.
49. The enormous turnip.
An oldman planted a turnip seed.
The turnip grew bigger and bigger.
the oldman tried to pull on the turnip leaves, but it wouldn't come out.
He quickly called his wife.
He fulled on the turnip leaves,and his wife pulled him, but the turnip wouldn,t come out.
She quickly called her dog.
The old man, the woman, the dog, and the cat pulled and pulled the turnip.
"Zaboom!" The turnip popped out.
50. The north wind and the sun.
The north wind and the sun disputed which was the more powreful.
"Let's have a game.
The one who is the first to make a trsaveler take off his coat is the winner," the wind said.
"Okay!" the sun agreed.
A traveler came on his way.
the wind blew and blew. But the traveler wrapped his coat tightly around him.
Then it was the sun's turn.
The sun made it very warm.
the traveler took off his coat.
51. The crane wife.
"Please weaver some more clothes. We could be rich," the farmer said to his wife.
"Yes. I will weave just one more," his wife answered sadly.
She started to weave in the room.
The farmer wanted to see what was going on inside.
He wondered why his wife got thinner after she weaved.
At last, he poked his head into the room.
"Oh, my gosh!"
A bleeding white crane was weaving in the room.
52. The man and the woods.
Man came into the woods with an ax.
The ax had no handle. The man said to the trees,
"Please give me a branch. I'm going to make something."
"Why not? Here you are," the tree gave him one of their branches.
The man fixed the ax to the branch and then began to cut down the trees.
"We were so foolish," the dying trees said.
53. The twelve dancing princesses.
The twelve princesses look at the snoring soldier.
As soon as they went out of the room, the soldier open the his eyes.
He threw his magic cloak around his shoulders and started to follow the twelve princesses.
On the stairs, the soldier stepped on the youngest princess's dress.
"Someone is following us!" the youngist princess shouted.
But the eldist princess did,nt believe her.
However, the youngist princess felt something was wrong.
54. The nanny and the wolf.
"Please be quiet," said the nanny to the crying baby in her arms, If you cry again, I,ll give you to a wolf."
A wolf over heard what she was saying.
"The sounds great," the wolf sad and smiled.
He decided to wait until the baby cried again.
A last, the baby started to cry again.
The wolf happily walked to the window and wagged his tail.
"Help! Help"
the nanny screamed as soon as she saw the wolf.
The dogs in the house came running, and the wolf ran away.
55. The stone cutter.
One day, a stonecutter saw the king.
"He looks strong. I wish I were the king.'
His wish came true, and he became the king.
The king saw the sun in the sky.
" The sun looks stronger than the king.
"I wish I were the sun."
The sun saw a cloud that covered it.
" The cloud looks stronger than the sun.
I wish I were the cloud.'
The cloud came to a big mountain.
"The mountain looks stronger than the cloud.
I wish I were the mountain."
The mountain saw a stone cutter who was cutting stone out of the mountain.
"The stonecutter is stronest of all."
He bacame a stonecutter again.
56. The miser and his gold.
A miser liked hiding his gold under a tree in his garden.
He never used his treasure.
He just dug it up and looked at the gold happily.
A robber saw what he was doing and stole the gold.
The miser saw a big hole where he hid his gold.
"Who stole my gold?"
he cried and cried.
His neighbors came running to his house, and the miser told them everything.
"The gold was no use to you because you had it in the ground.
Just look in the hole, and think about the gold inside it," a neighbor said.
57. Noah,s ark.
The animals came into a ark from everywhere.
When Noah,s family and the animals were aboard the ark, the rain began to fall.
It rained and rained night and day. The water rose and rose.The water flowed over everything.
Water covered the earth. Everything on the earth drowned.
Noar,s ark alone floated across the waves.
58. A woodcutter lost his ax in the water.(나무꾼과 토스 신)
When he cried, a god named Thoth appeared.
Thoth brought him a gold ax.
"Is this your ax?" he asked the woodcutter.
"No, it,s not mine," he said.
"You are very honest.
Take the gold ax and the silver ax as well," Thoth said to him.
59. Could anything be worse?
A family of mine lived in a small house.
One day, the father asked the rabbi "Rabbi my house is too crowed. What should I do?"
The rabbi said "Bring a chicken into your house."
he didn,t understand but did so.
The next day, he went to the rabbi again.
"Bring a donkey into the house." the rabbi said.
He went to the rabbi for seven day and soon had all his anymals in the house.
The next da, the rabbi said, "Take all the anymals out."
"Wow! my house has much more room then before!"
the man admired.
60. The Bremen town musicians.
The tallest donkey peeked inside the house.
"I can see the table and a robber is sitting at it," the donkey said to a anymals.
They talked about how to drive away the robber.
The donkey put his front feet up on the window ledge.
The dog jumped on the donkeys back.
the cat crimbed up on the dog.
The cock flew upon the head of the cat.
And then, they began to sing togrther.
"Bray! Bray!" "A meaw!" " Crow! Crow!"
61. The donkey and the dog.
A man had adonkey and a preety pat dog.
The donkey stayed in a stable.
And he had much work to do from early morning to night.
But the dog was loved by the master. The donkey was jealous of the dog.
One day, the donkey jumped about his master like the dog did.
Then he licked his master like a dog.
"Help me! The donkey is going to kill me!"
the master cried.
The servants beat the donkey and then drove the donkey to his stable.
62. Chicken Little.
A acorn fell on Chicken Little's head.
"The sky is falling,"
Chicken Little and her friends shouted and began to run.
They met Foxy Loxy way ndown the road.
"Hellow, where are going?"
Foxy Loxy asked.
"Do you know where the king lives?"they asked back.
"I Know. Just follow me," foxy Loxy said.
Foxy Loxy took them into his den.
But they never came out of the den.
63. The frog who wanted to be as Big as an Ox.
A frogsaw an ox."He is really big and hansome."
He began to blow himself up.
"Am I big enough?" the frog asked his friend.
The friend said, "No,"
"Okay. I will try harder>" the frog said.
The frog puffed and puffed himself up.
"How about now?" the frog asked another friend.
"Well you have stillgot a long way to go." the friend replied.
The frog blew and blew "Pop!"
At last, he exploded and died.
64. The shoemaker and hus wife were hiding behind a curtain.
At midnight, the elves crept into their house through a gap in the door.
"Who are they?" the shoemaker asked.
"They are elves." his wife whispered.
The elve climbed on to the shoemaker's table and started to work.
They stitched and stitched.
They hammered and hammered.
The next day, the shoemaker and his wife made tiny shoes and warm clothes for them.
They left the shoes and clothes on the table.
The elve loved the shoes and clothes very much.
65. Orpheus and Euridice.
Orpheus went to Hades, the king of the dead.
"Please release my wife, Euridice."
Orpheus sang while crying.
His song moved Hades.
"Take your wife home. But you should remember: do'nt look at her beforeyou arrive above ground." Hades warned.
As Orpheus walked up to the earth, he really wanted to see Euridice.
So he looked back to see her.
"Bye", she whispered and disappeared.
66. The little Mathch Girl.
It was a cold and snowy New Year's Eve.
The little match girl was walking in bare feet.
But nody bought even one box of matches all day long.
She took a match from the bundle and then rubbed it on the wall.
She tried to warm her frozen fingers with the little frame.
"Look at the frame. It was so warm!"
She imagined herself sitting in front of a warm stove.
She imagined herself sitting under a wonderful Christmas tree.
Thousand of lights were brightly lit on the tree,
and the lights became the stars in the sky.
67. Thedog in the manger.
When the ox was outside working, a dog went into the manger to take a nap.
"This place is cozy," the dog said.
But soon, the ox returned from work.
He wanted to rest on the straw near the manger.
The dog got angry."Bark! Bark! Who woke me up?"
The ox kept trying to get nearer to the pile of straw.
But the dog barked and barked at the ox.
At last, the ox gave up getting some rest on the straw and went outside.
68. The little mermaid.
The ship was beautifully decorated, and many people
were enjoing the prince,s wedding reception.
"Tonight is the last time I can breathe with the prince"the little mermaid thought.
She danced and danced without minding the pain in her feet.
"little sister," her sisters called out from the waves.
"We wont let you die.
We gave our hair to a witch to help you.
Here,s a knife.
Kill the prince before the sun rises."
69. The miser and the baby spoon.
Once, ther lived a rich miser.
One day, his neighbor came to him.
"Please led me your silverwares I,ll polish them
after I use them and return them to you."
The next day, the neighbor came to themiser again
and said, "One of your silverwares had a baby spoon!
I will give yo the silverwares with the baby."
The miser was delighted at the news.
After a few days, the neighbor told the miser
that the silverwares had died.
"What? Give me back my things."
"You believed your silverware gave birth.
Then you should believe they died, too," the neghbor said.
70. The oak tree and the reed.
"you are slender, so you have to bend your head.
But I never bend.
Nothing makes me bow," the oak tree said to the reed.
Suddenly, a strong wind blew.
The oak tree stood still, but at last, it bended.
But the reed bent his head down and kept moving as the wind passed by.
"I am not stronger than you.
But the wind never hearts me,"
the reed said to the dead oak tree.