His mother, however, gave him a cake which had been made with water and baked in the ashes, and a bottle of sour beer. The boy, however, begged so hard to be allowed to go that his father said: “There, get along with you you will buy your experience very dearly, I expect.” Then the stupid son said to his father, “Let me go for once and cut wood in the forest.”īut his father said: “No, your brothers have been hurt already, and it would be worse for you, who don’t understand wood-cutting.” His punishment soon came he had scarcely given two strokes on a tree with his axe, when he hit his leg such a terrible blow that he was obliged to limp home in great pain. Then he left the little old man standing in the road, and walked on. But the second son answered rudely: “What I might give to you I shall want myself, so be off.” As he entered the wood the same little old man met him, and begged for a piece of cake and a drop of wine. Next day the second son went into the forest to cut wood, and his mother gave him a cake and a bottle of wine. Now, this false stroke was caused by the little gray old man. The young man began cutting down a tree, but it was not long before he made a false stroke: the axe slipped and cut his arm so badly that he was obliged to go home and have it bound up. Not I, indeed, so take yourself off!” and he left the man standing and went on. The eldest son wanted to go and cut wood in the forest, and before he left home his mother prepared beautiful pancakes and a bottle of wine for him to take with him, so that he might not suffer from hunger or thirst.Īs he entered the forest he met a gray old man, who bade him “Good-morning,” and said: “Give me a little piece of cake out of your basket and a drop of wine out of your bottle, for I am very hungry and thirsty.”īut the clever son replied: “What, give you my cake and my wine! Why, if I did, I should have none for myself. There was a man who had three sons, the youngest of whom was considered very silly, and everybody used to mock him and make fun of him.
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