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СКАЧАТЬ href="#n_37" type="note">[37]”. Jack refused to give the witch any of his buttermilk, so the witch put him into a bag that she carried over her shoulders.

      She walked home with him. But on her way she suddenly remembered that she forgot a pot of fat that she bought in the town. Jack was very heavy, and the witch did not want to carry him back to the town, so she asked some men who were brushing the hedge by the road to take care[38] of her bag till she came back.

      When the witch went away, Jack cried to the men, “If you take me out[39] of this bag and fill it full of thorns[40], I will give you some of my buttermilk.”

      So the men took Jack out of the bag and filled it with thorns, and then Jack gave them some buttermilk and ran home.

      When the witch came back from town, she picked up her bag and walked home. But the thorns began to prick her back. When she came home, she emptied the bag on a clean white table. But when she found that there was nothing in the bag but thorns, she was very angry and said, “I’ll catch you tomorrow, Jack, and I’ll boil you.”

      Next day she met Jack again and asked him for some buttermilk and told him, “If you do not give me some buttermilk, I’ll put you into the bag again.” But Jack said, “I’ll give you no buttermilk.” So the witch put him into her bag, and again she remembered that she forgot something in the town.

      This time she left the bag with some men who were mending the road.

      When the witch went away, Jack cried to the men, “If you will take me out and fill this bag full of stones, I will give you some of my buttermilk.”

      Then the men took Jack out of the bag, and he gave them the buttermilk.

      When the witch came back from town, she picked up her bag and walked home. But the bag was very heavy. So she chuckled and said, “Indeed, Jack, you must eat less.”

      When she came home, she emptied the bag on the white table again. But when she saw the stones, she was very angry and cried, “I swear, Jack, that I’ll boil you when I catch you!”

      Next day she met Jack again and asked for some buttermilk. But Jack said, “No,” again, so she put him into her bag and went straight home with him and threw him out on the white table.

      When she did this, she saw she did not have enough water to boil the boy. So she put Jack back in the bag and went away. But she forgot to tie the bag. So while she was away, Jack crept out of it, opened all the cupboards in the house, and filled the bag with all the pots that he could find. After that he went away, and soon he was safely home.

      When the witch came back, she emptied the bag on the table again and broke all the pots that she had. After this she never caught Jack any more.

      Teeny-Tiny

      Once upon a time, there was a teeny-tiny woman. She lived in a teeny-tiny house in a teeny-tiny village. Now, one day this teeny-tiny woman put on her teeny-tiny bonnet and went out of her teeny-tiny house to take a teeny-tiny walk. And when this teeny-tiny woman went a teeny-tiny way, she came to a teeny-tiny gate. So the teeny-tiny woman opened the teeny-tiny gate and went into a teeny-tiny churchyard. And when this teeny-tiny woman got into the teeny-tiny churchyard, she saw a teeny-tiny bone on a teeny-tiny grave, and the teeny-tiny woman said to her teeny-tiny self, “This teeny-tiny bone will make me some teeny-tiny soup for my teeny-tiny supper.” So the teeny-tiny woman put the teeny-tiny bone into her teeny-tiny pocket and went home to her teeny-tiny house.

      Now, when the teeny-tiny woman got home to her teeny-tiny house, she was a teeny-tiny bit tired. So she went up her teeny-tiny stairs to her teeny-tiny bed and put the teeny-tiny bone into a teeny-tiny cupboard. And when this teeny-tiny woman was teeny-tiny sleeping, she was awakened[41] by a teeny-tiny voice from the teeny-tiny cupboard which said, “Give me my bone!”

      And this teeny-tiny woman was a teeny-tiny frightened, so she hid her teeny-tiny head under the teeny-tiny clothes and went to sleep again. And when she was again teeny-tiny sleeping, the teeny-tiny voice again cried out from the teeny-tiny cupboard a teeny-tiny louder, “Give me my bone!”

      The teeny-tiny woman was a teeny-tiny bit more frightened, so she hid her teeny-tiny head a teeny-tiny further under the teeny-tiny clothes. And when she was again teeny-tiny sleeping, the teeny-tiny voice from the teeny-tiny cupboard said again a teeny-tiny louder, “Give me my bone!”

      And this teeny-tiny woman was a teeny-tiny bit more frightened, but she put her teeny-tiny head out[42] of the teeny-tiny clothes and said in her loudest teeny-tiny voice, “TAKE IT!”

      The Glass Ball

      There was once a woman who had two daughters. She gave each of them a beautiful glass ball, and they liked them very much.

      One day, they were playing together, and one of the girls tossed her ball over the wall into the next garden. The house in that garden belonged to a fox who never talked to his neighbours.

      The girl that tossed her ball over the wall was afraid of this fox, but she liked the glass ball very much, so she said to herself, “I must not lose my ball and I’ll get it back.[43]”

      So she bravely walked to the fox’s house, but she knocked at the door very timidly. The fox opened the door, and the girl told him how she lost her glass ball in his garden.

      “You can have your ball,” said the fox, “if you become my housekeeper for a year.”

      The girl agreed to live in the fox’s house for a year. She did not see the fox very often because he went out early every morning and came back late at night.

      Now, before the fox went out as usual[44] one morning, he called the girl to him and said to her, “I am going away for a little time[45]. While I am away,[46] there are five things you must not do: you must not wash up the dishes or sweep the floor or dust the chairs or look into the cupboard, and you must not look under my bed.”

      And the fox went away. But the girl decided to disobey him, and she said to herself, “I will see what happens if I don’t do as he tells me.”

      So first of all, she washed up the dishes. Suddenly, a great bag full of copper fell down before her.

      “Very good,” said the girl.

      Next, she swept the floor. This time[47], a great bag full of silver fell down before her.

      “Better still[48],” said the girl.

      Next, she dusted the chairs when a great bag full of gold fell down before her.

      “That’s just what I want,” said the girl.

      Next, she looked into the cupboard, and there was her glass ball!

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