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THE TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES- GRIMM’S FAIRY TALES Một trong những bộ truyện cổ nổi tiếng nhất thế giới đã được dịch ra nhiều thứ tiếng là Truyện cổ Grimm. Sau đây là những câu truyện cổ ấy nhưng với nguyên bản bằng tiếng anh nhằm giúp các bạn nhỏ vừa học ngoại ngữ vừa tiếp xúc với thế giới thần tiên . | THE TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES There was a king who had twelve beautiful daughters. They slept in twelve beds all in one room and when they went to bed the doors were shut and locked up but every morning their shoes were found to be quite worn through as if they had been danced in all night and yet nobody could find out how it happened or where they had been. Then the king made it known to all the land that if any person could discover the secret and find out where it was that the princesses danced in the night he should have the one he liked best for his wife and should be king after his death but whoever tried and did not succeed after three days and nights should be put to death. A king s son soon came. He was well entertained and in the evening was taken to the chamber next to the one where the princesses lay in their twelve beds. There he was to sit and watch where they went to dance and in order that nothing might pass without his hearing it the door of his chamber was left open. But the king s son soon fell asleep and when he awoke in the morning he found that the princesses had all been dancing for the soles of their shoes were full of holes. The same thing happened the second and third night so the king ordered his head to be cut off. After him came several others but they had all the same luck and all lost their lives in the same manner. Now it chanced that an old soldier who had been wounded in battle and could fight no longer passed through the country where this king reigned and as he was travelling through a wood he met an old woman who asked him where he was going. I hardly know where I am going or what I had better do said the soldier but I think I should like very well to find out where it is that the princesses dance and then in time I might be a king. Well said the old dame that is no very hard task only take care not to drink any of the wine which one of the princesses will bring to you in the evening and as soon as she leaves you pretend to be .
