英語故事:The Seven Ravens

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There was once a man who had seven sons, and still he had no daughter, however much he wished for one. At length his wife again gave him hope of a child, and when it came into the world it was a girl.   The joy was great, but the child was sickly and small, and had to be privatelybaptized on account of its weakness. The father sent one of the boys in haste to the spring to fetch water for the baptism（洗禮）. The other six went with him, and as each of them wanted to be first to fill it, the jugfell into the well. There they stood and did not know what to do, and none of them dared to go home.   As they still did not return, the father grew impatient, and said, "They have certainly forgotten it for some game, the wicked boys!" He became afraid that the girl would have to die without being baptized, and in his anger cried, "I wish the boys were all turned into ravenstook it to heart daily, and thought she must deliver her brothers. She had no rest or peace until she set out secretly, and went forthinto the wide world to trace out her brothers and set them free, let it cost what it might. She took nothing with her but a little ring belonging to her parents as a keepsake, a loaf of bread against hunger, a little pitcherof water against thirst, and a little chair as a provision against weariness.    And now she went continually onwards, far, far to the very end of the world. Then she came to the sun, but it was too hot and terrible, and devouredlittle children. Hastily she ran away, and ran to the moon, but it was far too cold, and also awful and maliciousthe cloth, it was empty, and she had lost the good star's present. What was she now to do? She wished to rescue her brothers, and had no key to the Glass mountain. The good sister took a knife, cut off one of her little fingers, put it in the door, and succeeded in opening it.   When she had gone inside, a little dwarfcame to meet her, who said, "My child, what are you looking for?" "I am looking for my brothers, the seven ravens," she replied. The dwarf said, "The lord ravens are not at home, but if you will wait here until they come, step in." Thereupon the little dwarf carried the ravens' dinner in, on seven little plates, and in seven little glasses, and the little sister ate a morselfrom each plate, and from each little glass she took a sipbehind the door watching, heard that wish, she came forth, and on this all the ravens were restored to their human form again. And they embraced and kissed each other, and went joyfullyhome.

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