. Household stories from the collection of the Bros. Grimm . •J€ • SIX -SOLDIERS-oF-FORTUN^. HERE was once a man who was aJack-of-all-trades; he had served inthe war, and had been brave and bold,but at the end of it he was sent abouthis business, with three farthings andhis discharge. I am not going to stand this,said he; wait till I find the right manto help me, and the king shall give me all the treasures of his kingdom before he has done with , full of wrath, he went into the forest, and he sawone standing there by six trees which he had rooted up as ifthey had been stalks of corn. A
. Household stories from the collection of the Bros. Grimm . •J€ • SIX -SOLDIERS-oF-FORTUN^. HERE was once a man who was aJack-of-all-trades; he had served inthe war, and had been brave and bold,but at the end of it he was sent abouthis business, with three farthings andhis discharge. I am not going to stand this,said he; wait till I find the right manto help me, and the king shall give me all the treasures of his kingdom before he has done with , full of wrath, he went into the forest, and he sawone standing there by six trees which he had rooted up as ifthey had been stalks of corn. And he said to him, Will you be my man, and come along with me ? All right, answered he; I must just take this bit ofwood home to my father and mother. And taking one ofthe trees, he bound it round the other five, and putting thefaggot on his shoulder, he carried it off; then soon comingback, he went along with his leader, who said, Two such as we can stand against the whole when they had gone on a little while, they came to ahuntsman who was kneeling on one knee and taking care
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