Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters; one of them was beautiful and industrious, the other ugly and lazy. The mother, however, loved the ugly and lazy one best, because she was her own daughter, and so the other, who was only her stepdaughter, was made to do all the work of the house, and was quite the Cinderella of the family. Her stepmother sent her out every day to sit by the well in the high road, there to spin until she made her fingers bleed. Now it chanced one day that some blood fell on to the spindle, and as the girl stopped over the well to wash it off, the spindle suddenly sprang out of her hand and fell into the well. She ran home crying to tell of her misfortune, but her stepmother spoke harshly to her, and after giving her a violent scolding, said unkindly, ‘As you have let the spindle fall into the well you may go yourself and fetch it out.’
从前有一位寡妇，她有两个女儿；一个美丽又勤劳，另一个丑陋又懒惰。然而，母亲却最疼爱那个丑陋懒惰的女儿，因为那是她的亲生骨肉，所以另一个只是继女的女孩便不得不包揽家中所有的杂务，成了家里的灰姑娘。继母每天派她去大路旁的水井边纺纱，直到手指被磨出血来。有一天，不小心有血滴到了纺锤上，女孩停下脚步到井边清洗时，纺锤突然从她手中滑落，掉进了井里。她哭着跑回家诉说自己的不幸，但继母对她恶语相向，严厉责骂之后又刻薄地说：‘既然你把纺锤掉进井里了，那就你自己下去把它捞出来吧。’
The girl went back to the well not knowing what to do, and at last in her distress she jumped into the water after the spindle.
女孩回到井边，不知该如何是好，最后她在绝望中纵身跳入水中去追那枚纺锤。
She remembered nothing more until she awoke and found herself in a beautiful meadow, full of sunshine, and with countless flowers blooming in every direction.
她再醒来时已不记得之前发生了什么，发现自己身处一片美丽的草地，阳光明媚，四周开满了无数鲜花。
She walked over the meadow, and presently she came upon a baker’s oven full of bread, and the loaves cried out to her, ‘Take us out, take us out, or alas! we shall be burnt to a cinder; we were baked through long ago.’ So she took the bread-shovel and drew them all out.
她在草地上走着，不久便来到一个装满面包的烤炉旁，那些面包纷纷向她喊道：‘把我们拿出来吧，不然就要被烧成灰烬了！我们早就烤熟了。’于是她拿起面包铲，把面包全都取了出来。
She went on a little farther, till she came to a tree full of apples. ‘Shake me, shake me, I pray,’ cried the tree; ‘my apples, one and all, are ripe.’ So she shook the tree, and the apples came falling down upon her like rain; but she continued shaking until there was not a single apple left upon it. Then she carefully gathered the apples together in a heap and walked on again.
她继续往前走，来到一棵结满苹果的树前。‘摇我，摇我，求你了，’那棵树喊道，‘我的苹果全都熟了。’于是她用力摇晃树木，苹果像雨点般纷纷落下；但她一直摇到树上再没有一颗苹果为止。随后，她小心翼翼地将苹果聚成一堆，继续前行。
The next thing she came to was a little house, and there she saw an old woman looking out, with such large teeth, that she was terrified, and turned to run away. But the old woman called after her, ‘What are you afraid of, dear child? Stay with me; if you will do the work of my house properly for me, I will make you very happy. You must be very careful, however, to make my bed in the right way, for I wish you always to shake it thoroughly, so that the feathers fly about; then they say, down there in the world, that it is snowing; for I am Mother Holle.’ The old woman spoke so kindly, that the girl summoned up courage and agreed to enter into her service.
接着她来到一座小房子前，看见一位老妇人正从窗口向外张望，那老妇人的牙齿大得惊人，吓得她转身想逃。但老妇人喊道：‘亲爱的孩子，你怕什么？留下来吧；只要你好好为我做家务，我会让你非常幸福。不过你必须格外小心，按正确的方式铺床，因为我希望你总是用力拍打床铺，让羽毛四处飞扬；那时人们会说，那是下雪了；因为我就是霍勒妈妈。’老妇人说话如此温和，女孩鼓起勇气，答应为她做工。
She took care to do everything according to the old woman’s bidding and every time she made the bed she shook it with all her might, so that the feathers flew about like so many snowflakes. The old woman was as good as her word: she never spoke angrily to her, and gave her roast and boiled meats every day.
她尽心按照老妇人的吩咐做事，每次铺床都竭尽全力地拍打，让羽毛像雪花般四处飞舞。老妇人信守诺言：从未对她发怒，每天都给她提供烤肉和炖肉。
So she stayed on with Mother Holle for some time, and then she began to grow unhappy. She could not at first tell why she felt sad, but she became conscious at last of great longing to go home; then she knew she was homesick, although she was a thousand times better off with Mother Holle than with her mother and sister. After waiting awhile, she went to Mother Holle and said, ‘I am so homesick, that I cannot stay with you any longer, for although I am so happy here, I must return to my own people.’
她在霍勒妈妈那里住了一段时间后，开始感到不快。起初她说不清为何悲伤，但最终意识到自己极度渴望回家；这时她才明白自己是思乡了，尽管在霍勒妈妈身边比在母亲和姐姐那里好上千倍。等待片刻后，她对霍勒妈妈说：‘我如此思乡，无法再留在这里了，虽然我在这里很快乐，但我必须回到我的亲人身边。’
Then Mother Holle said, ‘I am pleased that you should want to go back to your own people, and as you have served me so well and faithfully, I will take you home myself.’
于是，霍勒妈妈说道：‘我很高兴你愿意回到自己的亲人身边，既然你为我服务得如此勤勉忠诚，我便亲自送你回家。’
Thereupon she led the girl by the hand up to a broad gateway. The gate was opened, and as the girl passed through, a shower of gold fell upon her, and the gold clung to her, so that she was covered with it from head to foot.
说罢，她牵着女孩的手来到一扇宽阔的大门前。大门打开，女孩穿过时，一场金雨洒落在她身上，金子紧紧附着在她身上，使她从头顶到脚底都被覆盖。
‘That is a reward for your industry,’ said Mother Holle, and as she spoke she handed her the spindle which she had dropped into the well.
‘这是对你勤劳的奖赏，’霍勒妈妈说道，同时把她掉进井里的那根纺锤递还给她。
The gate was then closed, and the girl found herself back in the old world close to her mother’s house. As she entered the courtyard, the cock who was perched on the well, called out:
随后大门关闭，女孩发现自己回到了旧世界，就在她母亲家附近。当她走进庭院时，栖息在井上的公鸡叫道：
‘Cock-a-doodle-doo! Your golden daughter’s come back to you.’
喔喔啼！你的金女儿回来了。
Then she went in to her mother and sister, and as she was so richly covered with gold, they gave her a warm welcome. She related to them all that had happened, and when the mother heard how she had come by her great riches, she thought she should like her ugly, lazy daughter to go and try her fortune. So she made the sister go and sit by the well and spin, and the girl pricked her finger and thrust her hand into a thorn-bush, so that she might drop some blood on to the spindle; then she threw it into the well, and jumped in herself.
随后她走进母亲和姐姐的房间，由于浑身披满黄金，她们热情地欢迎了她。她把发生的一切告诉她们，母亲听说她如何获得巨额财富后，便想让自己那个丑陋懒惰的女儿也去碰碰运气。于是她让妹妹坐到井边纺纱，那女孩故意用针扎破手指，把手伸进荆棘丛里，好让血滴在纺锤上；接着她把纺锤扔进井里，自己也跳了下去。
Like her sister she awoke in the beautiful meadow, and walked over it till she came to the oven. ‘Take us out, take us out, or alas! we shall be burnt to a cinder; we were baked through long ago,’ cried the loaves as before. But the lazy girl answered, ‘Do you think I am going to dirty my hands for you?’ and walked on.
和姐姐一样，她在美丽的草地上醒来，走过草地来到烤炉旁。‘把我们放出来吧，否则我们都要被烧成灰烬了！我们早就烤透了。’面包们像之前那样喊道。但那个懒惰的女孩回答说：‘你以为我会为了你们弄脏双手吗？’然后继续往前走。
Presently she came to the apple-tree. ‘Shake me, shake me, I pray; my apples, one and all, are ripe,’ it cried. But she only answered, ‘A nice thing to ask me to do, one of the apples might fall on my head,’ and passed on.
不久她来到一棵苹果树前。‘摇一摇我，求你了；我的苹果全都熟了。’它喊道。但她只回答：‘这算什么请求呢？万一有个苹果砸到我头上怎么办？’说完便走开了。
At last she came to Mother Holle’s house, and as she had heard all about the large teeth from her sister, she was not afraid of them, and engaged herself without delay to the old woman.
最后，她来到了霍勒太太的家里。由于从姐姐那里听说了那口大牙齿的事，她并不害怕，便立刻答应给这位老妇人做工。
The first day she was very obedient and industrious, and exerted herself to please Mother Holle, for she thought of the gold she should get in return. The next day, however, she began to dawdle over her work, and the third day she was more idle still; then she began to lie in bed in the mornings and refused to get up. Worse still, she neglected to make the old woman’s bed properly, and forgot to shake it so that the feathers might fly about. So Mother Holle very soon got tired of her, and told her she might go. The lazy girl was delighted at this, and thought to herself, ‘The gold will soon be mine.’ Mother Holle led her, as she had led her sister, to the broad gateway; but as she was passing through, instead of the shower of gold, a great bucketful of pitch came pouring over her.
第一天，她非常听话且勤勉，努力讨好霍勒太太，因为她想着自己将因此得到金子作为回报。然而第二天，她开始磨蹭干活；到了第三天，她更加懒惰了，早上赖在床上不肯起身。更糟糕的是，她不再好好替老妇人铺床，也忘了摇动床铺让羽毛飞扬起来。于是霍勒太太很快便对她厌烦了，告诉她可以走了。这个懒姑娘对此欣喜若狂，心想：‘金子马上就是我的了。’霍勒太太像对待她的姐姐一样领着她来到宽阔的大门前；但当她穿过大门时，倾泻而下的不是金雨，而是一大桶沥青。
‘That is in return for your services,’ said the old woman, and she shut the gate.
‘这是对你服务的回报，’老妇人说道，随后关上了大门。
So the lazy girl had to go home covered with pitch, and the cock on the well called out as she saw her:
于是，这个懒姑娘只好浑身沾满沥青地回家去，当她经过井边时，井上的公鸡叫道：
‘Cock-a-doodle-doo! Your dirty daughter’s come back to you.’
喔喔喔！你那个脏兮兮的女儿回来了。
But, try what she would, she could not get the pitch off and it stuck to her as long as she lived.
可是，无论她怎么努力，那顶帽子就是摘不下来，直到她去世都一直戴在头上。
LITTLE RED-CAP [LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD]
小红帽（即《小红帽》）
Once upon a time there was a dear little girl who was loved by everyone who looked at her, but most of all by her grandmother, and there was nothing that she would not have given to the child. Once she gave her a little cap of red velvet, which suited her so well that she would never wear anything else; so she was always called ‘Little Red-Cap.’
从前有个可爱的小女孩，人人都喜欢她，尤其是她的祖母，祖母对她疼爱有加，恨不得把世上所有好东西都给她。有一次，祖母送给她一顶红天鹅绒小帽，她戴上后非常合身，从此再也不愿戴别的帽子，所以大家便叫她‘小红帽’。
One day her mother said to her: ‘Come, Little Red-Cap, here is a piece of cake and a bottle of wine; take them to your grandmother, she is ill and weak, and they will do her good. Set out before it gets hot, and when you are going, walk nicely and quietly and do not run off the path, or you may fall and break the bottle, and then your grandmother will get nothing; and when you go into her room, don’t forget to say, “Good morning”, and don’t peep into every corner before you do it.’
有一天，她的母亲对她说：‘小红帽，这里有一块蛋糕和一瓶葡萄酒；拿去给你的外婆吧，她病了，身体虚弱，这些对她会有好处。趁天还没热就出发，走路时要走得好好的、安安静静，不要跑离小路，否则你可能会摔倒打碎瓶子，那样外婆就什么都吃不到了；当你走进她的房间时，别忘了说“早上好”，也不要还没打招呼就到处乱看。’
‘I will take great care,’ said Little Red-Cap to her mother, and gave her hand on it.
‘我会小心的，’小红帽对母亲说，并把手伸给她作为保证。
The grandmother lived out in the wood, half a league from the village, and just as Little Red-Cap entered the wood, a wolf met her. Red-Cap did not know what a wicked creature he was, and was not at all afraid of him.
外婆住在树林里，离村子有半里路远。小红帽刚走进树林，就遇到了一只狼。小红帽不知道这是个多么邪恶的家伙，也一点也不害怕他。
‘Good day, Little Red-Cap,’ said he.
‘早上好，小红帽，’他说。
‘Thank you kindly, wolf.’
多谢您，狼。
‘Whither away so early, Little Red-Cap?’
这么早要去哪儿呀，小红帽？
‘To my grandmother’s.’
去我外婆家。
‘What have you got in your apron?’
你围裙里装的是什么呀？
‘Cake and wine; yesterday was baking-day, so poor sick grandmother is to have something good, to make her stronger.’
蛋糕和葡萄酒；昨天是烘焙日，所以可怜的生病的祖母可以享用一些好东西，让她恢复体力。
‘Where does your grandmother live, Little Red-Cap?’
“小红帽，你的外婆住在哪里？”
‘A good quarter of a league farther on in the wood; her house stands under the three large oak-trees, the nut-trees are just below; you surely must know it,’ replied Little Red-Cap.
再往树林里走大约四分之一里格，她的房子就在那三棵大橡树下，胡桃树就在下面；你肯定知道那地方，
The wolf thought to himself: ‘What a tender young creature! what a nice plump mouthful--she will be better to eat than the old woman. I must act craftily, so as to catch both.’ So he walked for a short time by the side of Little Red-Cap, and then he said: ‘See, Little Red-Cap, how pretty the flowers are about here--why do you not look round? I believe, too, that you do not hear how sweetly the little birds are singing; you walk gravely along as if you were going to school, while everything else out here in the wood is merry.’
狼心里想：‘多嫩的小家伙啊！多肥美的一口——她比那老妇人更合胃口。我得耍点花招，把她们俩都骗到手。’于是他在小红帽身边走了片刻，然后说：‘瞧，小红帽，这里的鲜花多么美丽啊——你为什么不回头看看呢？我想，你也没听见小鸟们唱得多么甜美吧；你总是板着脸走路，好像要去上学似的，而林子里的一切本该是欢欢喜喜的。'
Little Red-Cap raised her eyes, and when she saw the sunbeams dancing here and there through the trees, and pretty flowers growing everywhere, she thought: ‘Suppose I take grandmother a fresh nosegay; that would please her too. It is so early in the day that I shall still get there in good time’; and so she ran from the path into the wood to look for flowers. And whenever she had picked one, she fancied that she saw a still prettier one farther on, and ran after it, and so got deeper and deeper into the wood.
小红帽抬起头，看到阳光透过树林四处跳跃，遍地都是美丽的花朵，心想：'我给奶奶采一束鲜花吧，她一定会很高兴。现在时间还早，我一定能准时赶到。'于是她离开大路走进森林去采花。每采到一朵花，她就觉得远处还有更美的，便追过去，结果越走越深，走进了森林深处。
Meanwhile the wolf ran straight to the grandmother’s house and knocked at the door.
与此同时，狼径直跑向奶奶家并敲响了门。
‘Who is there?’
“是谁？”
‘Little Red-Cap,’ replied the wolf. ‘She is bringing cake and wine; open the door.’
“小红帽，”狼回答说，“她正带着蛋糕和葡萄酒来呢，快把门打开。
‘Lift the latch,’ called out the grandmother, ‘I am too weak, and cannot get up.’
“把门闩打开，”祖母喊道，“我太虚弱了，起不来。”
The wolf lifted the latch, the door sprang open, and without saying a word he went straight to the grandmother’s bed, and devoured her. Then he put on her clothes, dressed himself in her cap laid himself in bed and drew the curtains.
狼把门闩抬起，门立刻开了，它一言不发径直走到奶奶的床边，把她吞进了肚子。随后，它穿上奶奶的衣服，戴上她的帽子，躺到床上，拉上了窗帘。
Little Red-Cap, however, had been running about picking flowers, and when she had gathered so many that she could carry no more, she remembered her grandmother, and set out on the way to her.
然而，小红帽一直在四处奔跑采花，当她采了太多以至于无法再拿更多时，她想起了祖母，便动身前往她的住处。
She was surprised to find the cottage-door standing open, and when she went into the room, she had such a strange feeling that she said to herself: ‘Oh dear! how uneasy I feel today, and at other times I like being with grandmother so much.’ She called out: ‘Good morning,’ but received no answer; so she went to the bed and drew back the curtains. There lay her grandmother with her cap pulled far over her face, and looking very strange.
她惊讶地发现小屋的门敞开着，走进房间时，心中涌起一种奇怪的感觉，不禁对自己说：‘哎呀！今天我怎么这么不安，平时我那么喜欢和奶奶待在一起。’她喊道：‘早上好，’却无人应答，于是走到床边，拉开窗帘。只见奶奶躺在床上，帽子拉得遮住了大半张脸，模样十分怪异。
‘Oh! grandmother,’ she said, ‘what big ears you have!’
“哦！奶奶，”她说，“您的耳朵好大啊！”
‘The better to hear you with, my child,’ was the reply.
“为了听得更清楚些，我的孩子。”这是回答。
‘But, grandmother, what big eyes you have!’ she said.
“可是，奶奶，你的眼睛多大啊！”她说。
‘The better to see you with, my dear.’
为了更清楚地看见你，亲爱的。
‘But, grandmother, what large hands you have!’
“可是，奶奶，您的手多大啊！”
‘The better to hug you with.’
这样就能更好地拥抱你了。
‘Oh! but, grandmother, what a terrible big mouth you have!’
“哦！可是，奶奶，你的嘴巴怎么这么大啊！”
‘The better to eat you with!’
“这样我就能更好地吃掉你！”
And scarcely had the wolf said this, than with one bound he was out of bed and swallowed up Red-Cap.
狼刚说完这话，便一跃而起，将小红帽一口吞下。
When the wolf had appeased his appetite, he lay down again in the bed, fell asleep and began to snore very loud. The huntsman was just passing the house, and thought to himself: ‘How the old woman is snoring! I must just see if she wants anything.’ So he went into the room, and when he came to the bed, he saw that the wolf was lying in it. ‘Do I find you here, you old sinner!’ said he. ‘I have long sought you!’ Then just as he was going to fire at him, it occurred to him that the wolf might have devoured the grandmother, and that she might still be saved, so he did not fire, but took a pair of scissors, and began to cut open the stomach of the sleeping wolf. When he had made two snips, he saw the little Red-Cap shining, and then he made two snips more, and the little girl sprang out, crying: ‘Ah, how frightened I have been! How dark it was inside the wolf’; and after that the aged grandmother came out alive also, but scarcely able to breathe. Red-Cap, however, quickly fetched great stones with which they filled the wolf’s belly, and when he awoke, he wanted to run away, but the stones were so heavy that he collapsed at once, and fell dead.
狼吃饱后，又躺回床上睡着了，并且打起了非常响的呼噜。猎人正好路过这所房子，心想：‘这老妇人的呼噜打得真响！我得进去看看她是不是需要帮忙。’于是他走进房间，来到床边时，发现狼正躺在里面。‘原来你在这里，你这老罪人！’猎人说，‘我找你好久了！’正当他准备开枪时，他突然想到狼可能已经吞掉了奶奶，而奶奶或许还能得救，于是他没有开枪，而是拿起一把剪刀，开始剪开熟睡中狼的肚子。剪了两刀后，他看见小红帽在发光，又剪了两刀，小女孩便跳了出来，哭着说：‘啊，我刚才吓坏了！狼肚子里太黑了！’随后，年迈的奶奶也活着出来了，只是几乎喘不过气来。小红帽立刻去搬来大石头，他们把石头塞进狼的肚子里。狼醒来后想逃跑，但石头太重，它立刻瘫倒在地，死了。
Then all three were delighted. The huntsman drew off the wolf’s skin and went home with it; the grandmother ate the cake and drank the wine which Red-Cap had brought, and revived, but Red-Cap thought to herself: ‘As long as I live, I will never by myself leave the path, to run into the wood, when my mother has forbidden me to do so.’
于是三人都欣喜不已。猎人剥下狼皮，带着它回家；祖母吃下了小红帽带来的蛋糕，喝了她带来的酒，精神恢复了。但小红帽心里想：'只要我活着，就绝不再独自离开大路跑进树林去，因为妈妈已经禁止我那样做了。'
It also related that once when Red-Cap was again taking cakes to the old grandmother, another wolf spoke to her, and tried to entice her from the path. Red-Cap, however, was on her guard, and went straight forward on her way, and told her grandmother that she had met the wolf, and that he had said ‘good morning’ to her, but with such a wicked look in his eyes, that if they had not been on the public road she was certain he would have eaten her up. ‘Well,’ said the grandmother, ‘we will shut the door, that he may not come in.’ Soon afterwards the wolf knocked, and cried: ‘Open the door, grandmother, I am Little Red-Cap, and am bringing you some cakes.’ But they did not speak, or open the door, so the grey-beard stole twice or thrice round the house, and at last jumped on the roof, intending to wait until Red-Cap went home in the evening, and then to steal after her and devour her in the darkness. But the grandmother saw what was in his thoughts. In front of the house was a great stone trough, so she said to the child: ‘Take the pail, Red-Cap; I made some sausages yesterday, so carry the water in which I boiled them to the trough.’ Red-Cap carried until the great trough was quite full. Then the smell of the sausages reached the wolf, and he sniffed and peeped down, and at last stretched out his neck so far that he could no longer keep his footing and began to slip, and slipped down from the roof straight into the great trough, and was drowned. But Red-Cap went joyously home, and no one ever did anything to harm her again.
故事还提到，有一次小红帽再次给老祖母送蛋糕时，另一只狼对她说话，试图诱使她偏离道路。然而，小红帽保持警惕，径直继续前行，并将遇到狼的事告诉了祖母：狼向她问好，但眼神凶恶，如果不是在公共道路上，她确信自己会被它吃掉。‘好吧，’祖母说，‘我们把门锁上，不让它进来。’不久后，狼敲门喊道：‘开门吧，祖母，我是小红帽，我给您送蛋糕来了。’她们没有回应，也没有开门。于是这只灰胡子狼绕着房子转了两三圈，最后跳上屋顶，打算等小红帽傍晚回家时，悄悄跟在她身后，在黑暗中将她吞掉。但祖母看穿了他的心思。屋前有一个大石槽，她对小女孩说：‘小红帽，拿桶来；我昨天做了香肠，把煮香肠的水倒进石槽里。’小红帽一直倒到石槽装满为止。这时，狼闻到了香肠的香味，它嗅了嗅，探头向下看，最后伸长脖子，以至于无法站稳，开始滑落，从屋顶直接掉进大石槽里，被淹死了。但小红帽欢快地回家了，从此再也没人伤害过她。