000 The Hen and the Little Girl
In a country home, a mother hen and her cute chicks were living happily. A little girl came to visit the country home, but was very bored. One night, the girl went into the chicken house. As soon as she went in, there was disorder.
Here and there cries of the chickens could be heard. The father, who was inside, woke up. \going on? Why are you bothering the chickens?\\I'm bored.\\have to sleep now, go inside.\The girl went into the chicken house, again, the next day. There was a racket again, as the chickens were frightened. The moon in the night sky was worried. This time, the little girl's father will not be forgiving. Finally, the sleeping father woke up. \came out to the yard.
\little girl saw her father's angry face, she began to cry.
\the chickens. I was going to hug the chickens.\When the father heard what his daughter said, a smile quickly appeared on his face. \are truly my daughter.\The father praised his daughter. He was proud of his daughter that knew how to apologize. The moon in the sky gave a big laugh, too. 001 The Mermaid Princess
In the deep, sea palace, there lived a mermaid princess. Whenever she sang a song with her beautiful voice, everyone envied her. However, the mermaid princess wanted to go to the outside world.
\you can go and see the life above the sea.\
Finally, it was the mermaid princess' 15th birthday. She went up to the sea. The princess saw a great ship. And she saw a handsome prince standing on the ship. The princess fell in love with him at first sight. However, as thunder and lightning struck, the ship sank on its side. The prince lost his consciousness and fell deep into the sea. \
The princess saved the prince and laid him on the sand. The princess took care of him all night. When the prince opened his eyes, the mermaid princess hid from him. She thought he might get scared by her tail. Just then, a princess from a neighbor land came out to see the sea and she saw the prince.
The princess watched from a far the prince who always came out to the sea at night. The princess was very sad. She wanted to become a human so that she could be with the prince.
She asked the witch. \the prince marries someone else, you will become a water bubble. You must marry the prince.\
On the sand, she drank the medicine that the witch had given her. With the big sudden pain, she turned into a human. Just then, the prince who came out to the sea saw the princess.
The prince took the princess who could not speak, to his palace. Although she could not speak, she was happy to be living near the prince. The prince was going to be married to a princess from a neighbor land. \could not be heard.
At night, the mermaid princess' older sisters came up to the sea. They gave the mermaid princess a knife
and said, \you stab the prince with this knife, you can be a mermaid again. If you don't, you will become a water bubble.\
On the night of the wedding, the mermaid princess was going to stab the sleeping prince with the knife. But, she could not kill the loving prince. \came, the mermaid turned into a water bubble and went up to heaven. 002 The Naked King
Long, long time ago, there lived a very fancy king. The king changed his clothes 12 times a day. He really liked to show off to his subjects. \
One day, two tailors planned a trick. \doesn't even worry about his starving people.\
The two men went to see the king. \cloth in the whole world.\bad hearts are not able to see this fine cloth.\
After the king heard those words, he became very interested. \make clothes out of those cloths, my clothes will be the best in the whole world. Hurry and show me the cloth.\
The tailors pretended that the cloth was real, as they showed it to the king. The king and the fine-spoken subjects could not see anything before them. But, none of them could show that they could not see it. The king and his fine-spoken subjects just looked at each other. Then, the tailor quickly spoke in a arrogant manner. \Among the subjects, one of them made a flattering comment out loud. \have seen such a wonderful cloth.\king was amazed with the beauty of the cloth, too.
The king gave the money and ordered them to make his clothes. For several days, the tailors pretended to be making the clothes. The king became worried and told one of his subjects to go and see how the clothes was coming along.
The subject could not say how much the clothes had been completed. As hard as he looked, he could not see it. But, he could not say that he was unable to see it. Instead, he pretended to be amazed at how beautiful it was coming along.
A few days later, the tailors came back with the King's clothes. \king was not able to honestly say that he could not see the clothes. He, too, pretended to look over it. One man said, \majesty, lets go and show off this finest clothes in the world.\The subjects all agreed at the same time. \
The king walked out to the street very proudly and walked with pride. All the people in the land came out to see the king's new clothes. They were all surprised, though.
Just then, a little girl shouted out, \The king now realized the truth. However, with only his undergarments on, he still walked in a dignified manner. Even though he was embarrassed, he could not stop walking. Why not? Because he was the king.
003 The Elf of the Rose
There once was a rose bush in full bloom in a big garden. An elf was living in the most beautiful rose in the garden, and she was so small that people could not see her. She had long blond hair to her toes and beautiful wings.
One day, it got dark before she got home. She had been dancing and flying around so she didn't have time
to get back to the rose bush. Suddenly, the weather got cold, evening dew started to fall, and a strong wind began to blow. She could not stay in the other flowers because they were all closed up.
\There was a twinkling light from the other side of the garden. \should spend tonight there.\
The elf flew to a pavilion on the other side of the garden in a hurry. But there were already two people in the pavilion. A beautiful young lady and a handsome man were praying that they would never be apart from each other. They were in love.
\our marriage. Oh my bride, please wait for me until I come back to you!\She pulled off a rose from the bush which was aside her and kissed it. Then she gave him the rose as a token of her love. At that moment, the rose opened up. The elf went into the rose secretly.
At that moment, a horrible looking man entered the pavillion. He was the brother of the young lady. \You want to marry my sister?\\is gone forever now, and he will forget my sister. How dare the poor little boy want to marry my sister? It is common to die during a trip, so nobody will suspect me of murdering him.\clothes and disappeared.
The elf woke up and found she was in the middle of a dark forest. \was not a forest. It was the hair of the young lady's brother. She shivered with fear and anger.
When they got in the house, the young lady from the garden was crying. The man looked at his sister and gave her a chilly smile, and went to bed. \my lover, my dear fiance, please come back safely.\She sobbed sadly and fell asleep.
The elf sat down quietly spreading her wings and told the young lady what she saw that day. \I am trying to say now is not a dream. If you dig under the linden-tree in the garden, you will find your fiance. It is your brother who killed him.\
The beautiful young lady woke up. She secretly went out of her room and dug under the linden-tree as the elf had said.
Her lover was lying in the ground, cold dead. She cried out sadly and killed herself right next to her fiance. After some time passed, a flower called, 'Jasmine' came into bloom at the place where the two lovers had died. The Jasmine had big white flowers on the branch and had a sweet smell.
Incidentally, the young lady's brother was walking down the road and he pulled off a branch of the jasmine and put it near his bedside. When night fell, two bees with poison stingers came out of the jasmine flowers and bit the brother's ears and mouth, and then they vanished. 004 The Ugly Duckling
A mother duck was brooding on her eggs near the margin of a pond. A flock of lovely baby ducks was soon born, making sweet peeping sounds when the eggs were broken. But one egg remained unbroken. \is strange. Why has this egg not broken?\
The mother duck continued her brooding. At last, the egg was broken and a baby duck was born. However that baby duck was very ugly compared to the other baby ducks.
The mother duck was worried, but still she took the baby ducks near the water and taught them how to swim. The ugly duckling also swam with his brothers and sisters, moving his legs eagerly. \That baby swims well.\
\to the poor duckling. \don't do that!\The mother duck sighed and said, \I wish that this baby
could live happily at another place.\
The baby duck heard what his mother said and dropped tears of sorrow saying, \I will leave. Good-bye.\The ugly duckling left his nest beyond the pond.
When he entered the forest, other birds were frightened by the baby duck and ran away. \away? Is it because I am so awful?\
Near the water beside the field, two wild ducks were playing around. \make fun of him.\
\What is this small bird?\\what is this poor-looking bird?\\took it with me in order to give it to you, my son. It was trembling with fear in the water.\\hurts! Ow!\The baby duck spilled a jug of milk while running away from the cruel hands of the children. The dishes on the table were also broken. The angry hunter sent out the baby duck with a flourish of his broomstick. And so the after being cast out from the house of the hunter, the ugly duckling spent a long and cold winter alone.
Finally spring came. The baby duck had a good stretch and flew up in the air vigorously. \am flying!\Upon the lake, a flock of white and pretty swans were playing around while swimming. \are indeed pretty birds.\
The baby duck tried to run away from the group of beautiful swans. \Where are you going? Come and play around with us!\own appearance reflected to the lake. There was one more beautiful swan gliding gracefully across the water. The ugly duckling who overcame all suffering had finally become a beautiful swan. And so he lived happily ever after. 005 Nightingale
A long time ago in China there lived an emperor. The emperor loved to read books. One day, in the book he was reading, it wrote, \
The emperor had never seen or heard of nightingale. \of it.
The emperor was very curious as to what nightingale was. \were worried by the emperor's command. They looked here and there.
One day a little girl said that she knew of nightingale. She said that the bird she had was nightingale. It was a small cute bird. At once nightingale was brought to the emperor.
The emperor was very happy. \~ is this bird called nightingale?\For the first time in his life, he heard the beautiful voice and was impressed and deeply moved.
\Everyday Nightingale sang for the emperor.
Emperor was happy every time he heard Nightingale sing. He was so proud of Nightingale that he allowed the servants to hear it too. However, Nightingale was not happy. Nightingale felt trapped and had no freedom. One day the neighboring country sent a gift to the emperor. It was a nightingale doll made of jewels and gold. Every time the doll was wound up it sang beautifully. Furthermore, the emperor if wanted could hear it everyday.
\Nightingale decided to leave. It flew off into the forest of freedom.
The Nightingale doll kept on singing. One day the doll broke. No body was able to fix it. The emperor was
heart broken.
The emperor became ill. He just laid there waiting to die. Just then, from the window, a beautiful song came flowing in. Everyone looked.
Sitting by the window, Nightingale began singing. Shortly after, the emperor became better. Nightingale was happy. Soon, the emperor's face was filled with happiness once again. 006 The Wild Swans
Once upon a time in a kingdom far away, there were eleven Princes and a single Princess, by the name of Elisa. One day, their mother died of a disease.
Eventually the King married again. The new Queen hated the twelve children.
She said craftily, \The King was grateful to the Queen, as she seemed to care for the health of his daughter. Therefore, the Princess was sent off to the remotest corner of the country.
The Queen then changed the eleven Princes into swans through her magic power, and sent them away from the royal palace. The Princes flew away crying sadly. \
After some time, the King missed Princess Elisa and sent for her. The Queen had Princess Elisa wear a dirty and worn-out dress. The King was very surprised to see the dirty Princess Elisa. \yourself?\was furious and sent the Princess away from him.
\man said, \crowns. You may find them near the river.\
Princess Elisa waited for her brothers near the river hoping to find them. At night, eleven swans swooped down to the ground and were turned into the form of Princes. \brothers!\\They cried and embraced each other.
The brothers were trapped under the spell of the wicked Queen, and were forced to become swans and fly around to look for something to eat during the day. Elisa prayed earnestly, \curse from my brothers.\In her dreams that night, a fairy appeared and said, \mantles for your brothers with hemp and have them wear the mantles. However, you should not speak at all until those mantles are made completely.\
The Princes thought that Elisa, who did not speak and merely kept knitting, had become strange. One day, a Prince from a neighboring kingdom saw the knitting Princess when he was out hunting. The Prince took Elisa to his palace saying to himself, \
But Elisa did not say anything, and only kept knitting eagerly. At nightfall of the next day, the hemp was all used up. Elisa picked some more hemp near a grave but was caught by the Prince. The Prince said, \dared to go to a grave at night? You must be a witch. Take this witch and burn her at the stake!\
Princess Elisa was unable to say anything and was imprisoned. Princess Elisa continued knitting without taking rest even in the prison. Princess Elisa was finally knitting the eleventh mantle, while being carried on a cart going to the burning place. The villagers threw stones at her while shouting, \witch is still knitting. Burn her at the stake!\
At that precise moment, the eleven swans flew in. Princess Elisa threw the finished mantles to the swans. Only then, Princess Elisa opened her mouth. \
They donned the knitted hoods they were turned back into Princes. The Princess told the Prince what had happened up to that time. Thereafter, the Prince and Princess Elisa lived happily together in their kingdom.
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