兒童英文童話故事短篇

1、第11頁(yè) 共11頁(yè)兒童英文童話故事短篇童話故事的聽眾除兒童之外也包括成人但19世紀(jì)及20世紀(jì)之后，童話故事開場(chǎng)漸漸轉(zhuǎn)變成兒童文學(xué)的一部份。The Wolf and the Seven Little KidsThere was once upon a time an old goat who had seven little kids, and loved them with all the love of a mother for her children.One day she wanted to go into the forest and fetch some food.So she c

2、alled all seven to her and said: Dear children, I have to go into the forest, be on your guard against the wolf; if he es in, he will devour you all-skin, hair, and everything.The wretch often disguises himself, but you will know him at once by his rough voice and his black feet. The kids said: Dear

3、 mother, we will take good care of ourselves; you may go away without any an_iety. Then the old one bleated, and went on her way with an easy mind.It was not long before someone knocked at the house-door and called: Open the door, dear children; your mother is here, and has brought something back wi

4、th her for each of you. But the little kids knew that it was the wolf, by the rough voice.We will not open the door, cried they, you are not our mother.She has a soft, pleasant voice, but your voice is rough; you are the wolf! Then the wolf went away to a shopkeeper and bought himself a great lump o

5、f chalk, ate this and made his voice soft with it.Then he came back, knocked at the door of the house, and called: Open the door, dear children, your mother is here and has brought something back with her for each of you. But the wolf had laid his black paws against the window, and the children saw

6、them and cried: We will not open the door, our mother has not black feet like you: you are the wolf! Then the wolf ran to a baker and said: I have hurt my feet, rub some dough over them for me. And when the baker had rubbed his feet over, he ran to the miller and said: Strew some white meal over my

7、feet for me. The miller thought to himself: The wolf wants to deceive someone, and refused; but the wolf said: If you will not do it, I will devour you. Then the miller was afraid, and made his paws white for him.Truly, this is the way of mankind.So now the wretch went for the third time to the hous

8、e-door, knocked at it and said: Open the door for me, children, your dear little mother has e home, and has brought every one of you something back from the forest with her. The little kids cried: First show us your paws that we may know if you are our dear little mother. Then he put his paws in thr

9、ough the window and when the kids saw that they were white, they believed that all he said was true, and opened the door.But who should e in but the wolf! They were terrified and wanted to hide themselves.One sprang under the table, the second into the bed, the third into the stove, the fourth into

10、the kitchen, the fifth into the cupboard, the si_th under the washing-bowl, and the seventh into the clock-case.But the wolf found them all, and used no great ceremony; one after the other he swallowed them down his throat.The youngest, who was in the clock-case, was the only one he did not find.Whe

11、n the wolf had satisfied his appetite he took himself off, laid himself down under a tree in the green meadow outside, and began to sleep.Soon afterwards the old goat came home again from the forest.Ah! what a sight she saw there! The house-door stood wide open.The table, chairs, and benches were th

12、rown down, the washing-bowl lay broken to pieces, and the quilts and pillows were pulled off the bed.She sought her children, but they were nowhere to be found.She called them one after another by name, but no one answered.At last, when she came to the youngest, a soft voice cried: Dear mother, I am

13、 in the clock-case. She took the kid out, and it told her that the wolf had e and had eaten all the others.Then you may imagine how she wept over her poor children.At length in her grief she went out, and the youngest kid ran with her.When they came to the meadow, there lay the wolf by the tree and

14、snored so loud that the branches shook.She looked at him on every side and saw that something was moving and struggling in his gorged belly.Ah, heavens, she said, is it possible that my poor children whom he has swallowed down for his supper, can be still alive? Then the kid had to run home and fetc

15、h scissors, and a needle and thread, and the goat cut open the monsters stomach, and hardly had she made one cut, than one little kid thrust its head out, and when she had cut farther, all si_ sprang out one after another, and were all still alive, and had suffered no injury whatever, for in his gre

16、ediness the monster had swallowed them down whole.What rejoicing there was! They embraced their dear mother, and jumped like a tailor at his wedding.The mother, however, said: Now go and look for some big stones, and we will fill the wicked beasts stomach with them while he is still asleep. Then the

17、 seven kids dragged the stones thither with all speed, and put as many of them into this stomach as they could get in; and the mother sewed him up again in the greatest haste, so that he was not aware of anything and never once stirred.When the wolf at length had had his fill of sleep, he got on his

18、 legs, and as the stones in his stomach made him very thirsty, he wanted to go to a well to drink.But when he began to walk and to move about, the stones in his stomach knocked against each other and rattled.Then cried he:What rumbles and tumblesAgainst my poor bones?I thought twas si_ kids,But it f

19、eels like big stones.And when he got to the well and stooped over the water to drink, the heavy stones made him fall in, and he drowned miserably.When the seven kids saw that, they came running to the spot and cried aloud: The wolf is dead! The wolf is dead! and danced for joy round about the well w

20、ith their mother.A Wolf StoryA young farmer, named Connor, once missed two fine cows from his herd, and no tale or tidings could be heard of them anywhere.So he thought he would set out on a search throughout the country; and he took a stout blackthorn stick in his hand, and went his way.All day he

21、travelled miles and miles, but never a sign of the cattle.And the evening began to grow very dark, and he was wearied and hungry, and no place near to rest in; for he was in the midst of a bleak, desolate heath, with never a habitation at all in sight, e_cept a long, low, rude shieling, like the den

22、 of a robber or a wild beast.But a gleam of light came from a chink between the boards, and Connor took heart and went up and knocked at the door.It was opened fit once by a tall, thin, grey-haired old man, with keen, dark eyes.“e in,” he said, “you are wele.We have been waiting for you.This is my w

23、ife,” and he brought him over to the hearth, where was seated an old, thin, grey woman, with long, sharp teeth and terrible glittering eyes.“You are wele,” she said.“We have been waiting for you - it is time for supper.Sit down and eat with us.”Now Connor was a brave fellow, but he was a little daze

24、d at first at the sight of this strange creature.However, as he had his stout stick with him, he thought he could make a fight for his life any way, and, meantime, he would rest and eat, for he was both hungry and weary, and it was now black night, and he would never find his way home even if he tri

25、ed.So he sat down by the hearth, while the old grey woman stirred the pot on the fire.But Connor felt that she was watching him all the time with her keen, sharp eyes.Then a knock came to the door.And the old man rose up and opened it.When in walked a slender, young black wolf, who immediately went

26、straight across the floor to an inner room, from which in a few moments came forth a dark, slender, handsome youth, who took his place at the table and looked hard at Connor with his glittering eyes.“You are wele,” he said, “we have waited for you.”Before Connor could answer another knock was heard,

27、 and in came a second wolf, who passed on to the inner room like the first, and soon after, another dark, handsome youth came out and sat down to supper with them, glaring at Connor with his keen eyes, but said no word.“These are our sons,” said the old man, “tell them what you want, and what brough

28、t you here amongst us, for we live alone and dont care to have spies and strangers ing to our place.”Then Connor told his story, bow he had lost his two fine cows, and had searched all day and found no trace of them; and he knew nothing of the place he was in, nor of the kindly gentleman who asked h

29、im to supper; but if they just told him where to find his cows he would thank them, and make the best of his way home at once.Then they all laughed and looked at each other, and the old hag looked more frightful than ever when she showed her long, sharp teeth.On this, Connor grew angry, for he was hot tempered; and he grasped his blackthorn stick firmly in his hand and stood up, and bade them open the door for him; for he would go his way, since they would give no heed and only mocked him.Then the eldest of the yo