格林童话集：The Lazy Spinner 懒惰的纺纱妇
n a certain village there once lived a man and his wife, and
the wife was so idle that she would never work at anything;
whatever her husband gave her to spin, she did not get done,
and what she did spin she did not wind, but let it all remain
entangled in a heap. if the man scolded her, she was always
ready with her tongue, and said, "well, how should i wind it,
when i have no reel? just you go into the forest and get me
one." "if that is all," said the man, "then i will go into the
forest, and get some wood for making reels." then the woman
was afraid that if he had the wood he would make her a reel
of it, and she would have to wind her yarn off, and then begin to
spin again. she bethought herself a little, and then a lucky idea
occurred to her, and she secretly followed the man into the forest,
and when he had climbed into a tree to choose and cut the wood,
she crept into the thicket below where he could not see her, and
cried,
"he who cuts wood for reels shall die,
and he who winds, shall perish."
the man listened, laid down his axe for a moment, and began
to consider what that could mean. "hollo," he said at last,
"what can that have been; my ears must have been singing, i
won't alarm myself for nothing." so he again seized the axe,
and began to hew, then again there came a cry from below:
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