1 The giant showed him a bed, and said he was to lie down in it and sleep.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR 2 The giant was pleased with the good cheer, and ate and drank to his heart's content.
3 Then the giant picked up a stone and threw it so high that the eye could scarcely follow it.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR 4 The giants were terrified, they were afraid that he would strike them all dead, and ran away in a great hurry.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR 5 When the giant saw him, he called out, 'It is lucky for that you have come, for I have not had anything to eat for a long time.'
6 The little tailor began his game again, picked out the biggest stone, and threw it with all his might on the breast of the first giant.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR 7 The road led him up a mountain, and when he had reached the highest point of it, there sat a powerful giant looking peacefully about him.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR 8 When they went into the cave, other giants were sitting there by the fire, and each of them had a roasted sheep in his hand and was eating it.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR 9 The giant made the attempt but he could not get over the tree, and remained hanging in the branches, so that in this also the tailor kept the upper hand.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR 10 But the little tailor was much too weak to hold the tree, and when the giant let it go, it sprang back again, and the tailor was tossed into the air with it.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR 11 With the earliest dawn the giants went into the forest, and had quite forgotten the little tailor, when all at once he walked up to them quite merrily and boldly.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR 12 He found that the light came from a house which looked smaller than it really was, from the contrast of its height with that of an immense giant who stood in front of it.
13 The man now thought he should like to continue his journey, but the giant begged him to remain for a day or two longer until the return of his brother, who was away in search of provisions.
14 They went on together, and as they passed a cherry-tree, the giant laid hold of the top of the tree where the ripest fruit was hanging, bent it down, gave it into the tailor's hand, and bade him eat.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR 15 When it was midnight, and the giant thought that the little tailor was lying in a sound sleep, he got up, took a great iron bar, cut through the bed with one blow, and thought he had finished off the grasshopper for good.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR 16 So he went home again; and as he came near he saw his wife Ilsabill sitting on a very lofty throne made of solid gold, with a great crown on her head full two yards high; and on each side of her stood her guards and attendants in a row, each one smaller than the other, from the tallest giant down to a little dwarf no bigger than my finger.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE 17 The giant took the trunk on his shoulder, but the tailor seated himself on a branch, and the giant, who could not look round, had to carry away the whole tree, and the little tailor into the bargain: he behind, was quite merry and happy, and whistled the song: 'Three tailors rode forth from the gate,' as if carrying the tree were child's play.
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