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格林童话小农夫,
The miller asked, "What did he say?"
The little peasant answered, "He says that the devil is hiding out there in the hallway chest."
The miller said, "The devil must leave," and opened the outside door.
Then the woman had to give up the keys, and the little peasant unlocked the chest. The priest ran out as fast as he could, and the miller said, " I saw the black fellow with my own eyes. It was true."
The next morning at dawn the little peasant quickly made off the with the three hundred talers.
At home the little peasant gradually began to prosper. He built a nice house, and the peasants said, "The little peasant has certainly been to the place where golden snow falls and people carry money home by the bushel."
Then the little peasant was summoned before the mayor and ordered to tell where his wealth came from.
He answered, "I sold my cow´s hide in the town for three hundred talers."
When the peasants heard this, they too wanted to benefit from this favorable exchange. They ran home, slaughtered all their cows, and stripped off their hides in order to sell them in the town at this great profit.
The mayor, however, said, "But my maid must go first."
When she came to the buyer in the town, he did not give her more than three talers for one hide, and when the others came, he did not give them even that much, saying, "What am I to do with all these hides?"
Then the peasants were angry that the little peasant had deceived them. Wanting to take revenge against him, they accused him of fraud before the mayor. The innocent little peasant was unanimously sentenced to death, and he was to be rolled into the water in a barrel pierced with holes. He was led out, and a priest was brought who was to say a mass for his soul. The others had to step back, and when the little peasant looked at the priest he recognized the man who had been with the miller´s wife.
He said to him, "I freed you from the chest. Free me from the barrel."
Just then a shepherd came by with a flock of sheep. It was the very shepherd who, as the little peasant knew, had long wanted to be mayor. Then the little peasant cried out with all his might, "No, I will not do it! Even if the whole world insists on it, I will not do it!"
Hearing this, the shepherd came up to him, and asked, "What are you up to? What is it that you will not do?"
The little peasant said, "They want to make me mayor, if I will get into the barrel, but I will not do it."
The shepherd said, "If that is all that is needed to be mayor, I would get into the barrel at once."
The little peasant said, "If you will get in, then you will be mayor."
The shepherd agreed and got in, and the little peasant nailed the top down. Then he took the shepherd´s flock for himself, and drove it away. The priest went to the people and told them that the mass had been read. Then they came and rolled the barrel towards the water. As the barrel began to roll, the shepherd cried out, "I will gladly be mayor."
They believed that it was the little peasant who was saying this and answered, "That is what we intend, but first take a look around down there," and they rolled the barrel into the water.
After that the peasants went home, and as they were entering the village, the little peasant approached them, happily driving a flock of sheep. The astonished peasants said, "Little peasant, where are you coming from? Did you come out of the water?"
"Yes indeed," answered the little peasant. "I sank deep, deep down, until at last I reached the bottom. I pushed the bottom out of the barrel, and crawled out. There were beautiful meadows there, where many lambs were grazing. I brought this flock with me from there."
The peasants said, "Are there more there?"
"Oh, yes," he said. "More than you could use."
Then the peasants decided that they too would get some sheep for themselves, a flock for each one of them, but the mayor said, "I come first."
So they went to the water together, and just then in the blue sky there were some of the small fleecy clouds that are called little lambs. They were reflected in the water, and the peasants cried out, "We can already see the sheep down there on the bottom."
The mayor pushed his way to the front, saying, "I will go down first, and take a look around. If everything is all right, I shall call you." Then he jumped in.
"Plop," went the water. They thought that he was calling them to come, and the whole lot of them hastily plunged in after him.
Then the entire village was dead, and the little peasant, as the only heir, became a rich man.
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