green fairy tale book

Chapter 32 Spindle Shuttle Needle

Once upon a time there was a girl who lost her parents when she was very young.Her godmother lived alone in a hut on the edge of the village, spinning, weaving, and needlework for a living.She took the girl into her own home to raise her, and trained her to be a kind, pious and hardworking person.

When the girl was 15, her godmother became seriously ill.She called the girl to the bed and said, "Dear daughter, I feel that my life is coming to an end. I leave you this cabin, which will at least shelter you from the wind and rain; my spindle, the weaver Leave the shuttle and the needle to you too, and you can earn a living from them."

She put her hand on the girl's head to bless her, and then said: "You must be obedient and be a kind person, so that happiness will come to you." After she finished speaking, she closed her eyes forever.At the funeral, the girl wept bitterly after her godmother's coffin, and mourned with all her might at the funeral.

After the death of her godmother, the girl began to live alone in the cottage.She worked hard, spinning, weaving, and doing needlework... The old godmother's blessing seemed to really bless her in the dark, and her flax thread seemed to grow more and longer as she used it. Be it the cloth weaves, the carpets, or the clothes we make, there will always be customers who buy them at a good price.In this way, not only did she not go hungry, but she even sometimes helped those who were hungry.

The king's son was currently traveling all over the country in order to find a wife for himself.He couldn't marry a poor woman, but he didn't want to marry a rich one either.

"I will marry a woman," said he, "who is both the poorest and the richest."

So when he came to the village where the girl lived, he asked the people who was the poorest man and the richest woman in the village.They named one of the richest women, and told him that the poorest was a young girl who lived in a cottage on the edge of the village.

The richest woman was sitting at her door in her best dress, and when the Prince passed by, she rose to meet him, and curtseyed.The Prince looked her up and down, but rode off without saying anything.

When he came to the poor girl's house, he found that the girl was not sitting at the door, but was working in the house.The prince reined in his horse, looked through the window in the bright sunlight, and saw the girl sitting in front of the spinning wheel and busy spinning.

The girl flushed with shame when she found the prince staring at her.She lowered her eyes and continued spinning, but whether the yarn she spun would be as even as before, that's not sure!She just kept spinning and spinning like this, until the prince rode away on the horse, she went out of the window, opened the pane and said, "It's so hot in the room." But in fact, she kept watching the prince's back as he left. , until the white feather on his hat slowly disappeared from sight.

Then she sat down and went on spinning, when she suddenly remembered a little song that her godmother used to sing at work when she was alive, and she sang it too:

"Spindle spindle, don't linger, my lover would like to come?"

behold!The spindle actually jumped out of her hand and jumped out of the room.She was startled, and when she came back to look out the window, she saw that her little spindle seemed to come to life, dragging a long golden thread, bouncing and happily passing through the window. Fields, soon disappeared.

Having lost her spindle, the girl took up the shuttle and sat down at the loom to weave.At the same time, the little spindle was still bouncing forward, and caught up with the prince just when the golden thread was lowered to its head.

"Damn me!" he cried, "but the spindle seems to be trying to show me the way." So he turned his horse, and came back in the direction of the golden thread.

Meanwhile the poor girl was still weaving, and she sang as she weaved:

"Shuttle and shuttle weave patterns, and patterns are woven for the person you like."

As soon as the words were finished, the shuttle jumped out of her hand, bounced to the door, and started weaving quickly, and in a blink of an eye, it woven into the most beautiful carpet in the world.The lace of the carpet is patterned with blooming roses and lilies, and in the middle of the carpet are woven green bushes. There are many hares jumping and jumping in the forest, and there are a few squirrels and deer poking around in the bushes.There are many colorful birds perched on the branches. They flutter their wings so lifelike that it seems that their singing can be heard immediately.Shuttles danced dizzyingly from one side of the room to the other, and new designs kept appearing on the carpet as if growing out of the ground.

Since the shuttle had also run away, the girl sat down and sewed with a needle and sang:

"Silver needles are thin and bright, making my hut beautiful."

In the blink of an eye, the needle also slipped out of her hand and flew around the room like lightning.As if invisible elves were cleaning up the room, after a while, the tables and cases were covered with green tablecloths, the chairs were covered with velvet, and the windows were hung with elegant silk curtains.No sooner had the needle finished the last stitch than the girl saw through the window the white feather on the prince's hat, who had been brought back here by the golden thread on the spindle.He dismounted, stepped across the rug, and entered the girl's cabin.The girl hurriedly stood up, her face was as red as a rose.

"You are the poorest and richest girl," said the prince, "come with me, and you will be my bride."

She said nothing, but held out her hand timidly to the prince.The prince kissed her, then led her out of the cottage, put her on his horse, and together they returned to the prince's palace.Then they held a grand wedding.And the girl's shuttle, spindle, and needle?They were carefully kept in the prince's treasury, and became the most precious treasures of the kingdom.

(End of this chapter)