Brothers Grimm - brave tailor. Grimm brothers Jacob and Wilhelm

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One day Hans the tailor is sitting on the table, sewing, and hears people shouting on the street: “Jam! Plum jam! Who wants some jam?
"Jam! - thought the tailor. - And even plum. This is good".
He thought so and shouted out the window:
Auntie, auntie, come here! Give me some jam!
He bought half a jar of this jam, cut himself a piece of bread, spread it with jam and began to finish sewing his vest.
“Here,” he thinks, “. I’ll finish my vest and eat some jam.”
And in the room of the tailor Hans there were many, many flies, it was impossible to count how many. Maybe a thousand, maybe two thousand. The flies smelled the jam and flew onto the bread.
Flies, flies,” the tailor tells them, “who called you here?” Why did they attack my jam?
But the flies don’t listen to him and eat the jam. Then the tailor got angry, took a rag, and as soon as he hit the flies with the rag, he killed seven flies at once.
Is that how brave I am? - said the tailor Hans. “The whole city should know about this.” What about the city? Let the whole world know! I’ll make myself a new belt and embroider on it in large letters: “When I’m angry, I kill seven.”
So he did. Then he put on a new belt, put a piece of curd cheese in his pocket for the road and left the house.
Right at his gate he saw a bird entangled in a bush. The bird fights, screams, but cannot get out. Hans caught the bird and put it in the same pocket where he had the curd cheese.
He walked and walked and finally came to a high mountain. He climbed to the top and saw a giant sitting on the mountain and looking around.
“Hello, buddy!” tailor Hans says to him. - Let's go travel around the world with me.
“What a friend you are to me,” the giant answers. “You are weak, small, and I am big and strong.” Leave while you're still alive.
Did you see this? - says the tailor Hans and shows the giant his belt. And on Hans’s belt is embroidered in large letters: “When I’m angry, I kill seven.”
The giant read it and thought: “Who knows, maybe he really is a strong man. We need to try it."
The giant took a stone in his hands and squeezed it so tightly that water flowed from the stone.
“Now try to do it,” said the giant.
That's all? - says the tailor. - Well, for me this is an empty matter.
He slowly took a piece of cream cheese out of his pocket and clenched it in his fist. Water poured out of the fist onto the ground.
The giant was surprised at such strength, but decided to test Hans again. He picked up a stone from the ground and threw it into the sky. He threw it so far that the stone was no longer visible.
Well,” he says to the tailor, “try this too.”
“You throw high,” said the tailor. “And yet your stone fell to the ground.” So I’ll throw a stone straight into the sky.
- He put his hand in his pocket, grabbed the bird and threw it up. The bird soared high, high into the sky and flew away.
What, buddy, what's it like? - asks the tailor Hans.
Not bad,” says the giant. “But now let’s see if you can carry a tree on your shoulders.”
He led the tailor to a large felled oak tree and said:
If you are so strong, then help me take this tree out of the forest.
“Okay,” the tailor answered, but thought to himself: “I am weak, but smart, and you are strong, but stupid. I will always be able to deceive you."
And he says to the giant:
You just put the trunk on your shoulders, and I will carry all the branches and twigs, because they will be heavier.
-So they did.
The giant put the trunk on his shoulders and carried it. And the tailor jumped onto a branch and sat astride it. The giant drags the whole tree on himself, and even a tailor to boot. But he can’t look back. The branches are in his way. Tailor Hans rides on a branch and sings a song:

How did our guys go?
From the gate to the garden...

The giant dragged the tree for a long time, finally got tired and said:
Listen, tailor, I’ll throw the tree to the ground now. I'm very tired. Then the tailor jumped from the branch and grabbed the tree with both hands, as if he had been walking behind the giant all the time.
“Eh,” he said to the giant, “you are so big, but apparently you have little strength.”
They left the tree and moved on.
They walked and walked and finally came to a cave. There, five giants were sitting around the fire, and each had a roasted lamb in their hands.
“This,” says the giant who brought Hans, “is where we live.” Climb onto this bed, lie down and rest.
The tailor looked at the bed and thought:
“Well, this bed is not for me. Too big."
He thought so, found a darker corner in the cave and went to bed. And at night the giant woke up, took a large iron crowbar and hit the bed with a swing.
Well,” the giant said to his comrades, “now I’m rid of this strong man.”
All six giants got up in the morning and went into the forest to chop wood. And the tailor also got up, washed, combed his hair and followed them. The giants saw Hans in the forest and got scared.
“Well,” they think, “if we didn’t even kill him with an iron crowbar, now he’ll kill us all.”
And the giants fled in different directions.
And the tailor laughed at them and went wherever he wanted.
He walked and walked and finally came to the royal palace. There, at the gate, he lay down on the green grass and fell fast asleep.
And while he was sleeping, the royal servants saw him, bent over him and read the inscription on his belt: “When I am evil, I kill seven.”
“That’s how the strong man came to us,” they said, “We must report him to the king.”
The royal servants ran to their king and said:
A strong man lies at the gates of your palace. It would be nice to hire him. If there is a war, he will be useful to us.
The king was delighted.
That’s right,” he says, “call him here.”
The tailor got some sleep, rubbed his eyes and went to serve the king.
He serves one day, then serves another. And the royal soldiers began to say to each other:
What good can we expect from this strongman? After all, when he is angry, he kills seven. That's what it says on his belt.
They went to the king and said:
We don’t want to serve with him. He'll kill us all if he gets angry. Release us from service.
And the king himself already regretted that he had taken such a strong man into his service.
“What if,” he thought, “this strong man will really get angry, kill my soldiers, hack me to death and sit in my place. How can I get rid of it?
He called the tailor Hans and said:
In my kingdom, in a dense forest, there live two robbers, and both of them are so strong that no one dares to come close to them. I order you to find them and defeat them. And to help you I give a hundred horsemen.
Okay,” said the tailor. “When I’m angry, I kill seven.” But I can handle two robbers just in jest.
And he went into the forest. And a hundred royal horsemen galloped after him.
At the edge of the forest the tailor turned to the riders and said:
You, horsemen, wait here, and I can deal with the robbers alone.
He entered the thicket and began to look around. He sees two robbers lying under a large tree, snoring so much in their sleep that the branches sway above them.
The tailor, without thinking twice, filled his pockets full of stones, climbed a tree and began throwing stones from above at one robber. It will hit him in the chest, then on the forehead. But the robber snores and hears nothing.
And suddenly one stone hit the robber on the nose. The robber woke up and pushed his comrade in the side:
Why are you hitting me?
“What are you talking about,” says another robber. “I’m not hitting you, you obviously dreamed.”
And again they both fell asleep.
Then the tailor began to throw stones at the other robber.
He also woke up and began shouting at his comrade:
Are you throwing stones at me? Are you crazy?
Yes, how he will hit his friend on the forehead. And that one is his. And they began to fight with stones, sticks and fists.
And they fought until they killed each other to death.
Then the tailor jumped out of the tree, went out to the edge of the forest and said to the riders:
It's done. Both were killed. Well, these robbers are evil - they threw stones at me, and swung their fists at me, but what can they do with me? After all, when I’m angry, I kill seven.
The royal horsemen rode into the forest and saw: right, two robbers were lying on the ground, lying and not moving - both were killed.
Tailor Hans returned to the palace to the king. And the king was cunning. He listened to Hans and thought:
“Okay, you dealt with the robbers, but now I’ll give you such a task that you won’t survive.”
Listen,” the king says to Hans, “go back into the forest and catch the fierce unicorn beast.”
“If you please,” says the tailor Hans, “I can do this.” After all, when I’m angry, I kill seven. So I can deal with just one unicorn in no time.
He took an ax and a rope with him and went into the forest again.
Tailor Hans did not have to look for the unicorn for long: the beast itself jumped out to meet him - terrible, its fur stood on end, its horn sharp as a sword.
The unicorn rushed at the tailor and was about to pierce him with its horn, but the tailor hid behind a tree. The unicorn ran and slammed its sharp horn into the tree. He rushed back, but couldn’t pull him out.
Now you won’t leave me! - said the tailor, threw a rope around the unicorn’s neck, cut out its horn from the tree with an ax and led the animal on the rope to the king.
Brought the unicorn straight to the royal palace.
And the unicorn, as soon as he saw the king in a golden crown and a red robe, began to sniffle and wheeze. His eyes were bloodshot, his fur stood on end, his horn stuck out like a sword.
The king got scared and started to run. And all his warriors are behind him. The king ran far away, so far that he couldn’t find his way back.
And the tailor began to live and live in peace, sewing jackets, trousers and vests. He hung his belt on the wall and never saw any more giants, robbers, or unicorns in his life.

Brothers Grimm

Brave Little Tailor

One summer morning, a tailor was sitting by the window on his sewing table; he was having fun and sewing as hard as he could. And a peasant woman walked down the street, shouting: “I sell good jam! I sell good jam!” The little tailor was pleased to hear this; he stretched his frail neck out the window and shouted:

Hey, my dear, come upstairs, here you can sell your goods!

The woman went up with her heavy basket to the tailor on the third floor and began to untie all her jars in front of him. He looked at them all, examined them, picked them up, looked closely, smelled them and finally said:

The jam seems good. Well, give me four lots, my dear, otherwise I’ll probably take the whole quarter of a pound.

The woman, hoping to sell a lot of her goods, sold the tailor as much as he asked and left, grumbling with frustration.

Well, God bless this jam,” exclaimed the tailor, “and send me vigor and strength!” - With these words, he took bread out of the cabinet, cut out a piece of bread for himself and spread it with jam.

It probably won’t be bad,” he said, “but first I’ll finish the jacket, and then I’ll eat properly.”

He put a piece of bread next to him and continued to sew, but to celebrate, he began to sew with large stitches. Meanwhile, the smell of sweet jam spread throughout the room, and many flies sitting on the wall sensed it and flocked to the bread in a swarm.

Hey you, who called you here? - said the tailor and began to drive away the uninvited guests.

But the flies did not understand the German language, they did not listen to him, and even more of them flew in. Here the tailor, as they say, finally ran out of patience, he lost his temper, rushed over, grabbed the cloth and shouted: “Wait, I’ll give it to you!” - without any pity, he smacked the flies with all his might. He picked up the cloth, looked, counted - and there lay in front of him, with his legs outstretched, no less than seven killed flies. “What a great fellow I am! - he said, and he himself was surprised at his courage. “The whole city needs to know about this.”

Then the tailor hastily cut out a belt, stitched it together and embroidered on it in large letters: “He beat seven in one fell swoop.” “What a city,” he continued to reason further, “the whole world should know about this!” - And his heart trembled with joy, like a ram’s tail.

The tailor girded himself with a belt and prepared to set off across the world, considering that the tailor's workshop was too small for his courage. But before setting off on his journey, he began to rummage around the house to see if there was anything that he could take with him, but he found nothing except a head of old cheese, and took it with him. At the gate he saw a bird entangled in the bushes; he caught it and also put it in his pocket along with the cheese. Then he boldly set off on his journey, and he was light and agile and therefore did not feel any fatigue.

The path led him to the mountain, and when he climbed to the very top, he saw a huge giant sitting there and calmly looking around.

The little tailor boldly approached him, spoke to him and asked:

Hello, comrade, why are you sitting here and looking at the free and wide world? I’m going to wander around the world, I want to try my luck, won’t you come with me?

The giant looked contemptuously at the tailor and said:

Hey you pathetic ragamuffin!

No matter how it is! - answered the little tailor, and he unbuttoned his jacket and showed the giant his belt, “here, you can read for yourself what kind of person I am!”

The giant read: “He beat seven in one fell swoop” - and thought that we're talking about about the people the tailor had killed, and felt some respect for the little man. But he wanted to test it first. He took the stone in his hand and squeezed it so that water flowed out of it.

“So you try the same,” said the giant, “if you have enough strength.”

Is that all? - asked the little tailor. - Yes, this is nothing for me! - And he reached into his pocket, took out a head of soft cheese and squeezed it so that the juice flowed out of it.

Well,” he said, “perhaps it will be better than yours?”

The giant did not know what to say to him - he never expected this from such a little man. Then the giant picked up a stone and threw it up so high that it disappeared from sight.

Come on, drake, try it too.

“Well, it was thrown well,” said the tailor, “but the stone fell to the ground again; and I’ll leave him so that he won’t come back. - And he reached into his pocket, took out the bird and threw it up. The bird, rejoicing at its freedom, took off, rose high into the sky and never returned.

Well, how do you like this, my friend? - asked the tailor.

“You know how to throw well,” said the giant, “but let’s see if you can bear more weight.” - And he led the little tailor to a huge oak tree that lay cut down on the ground, and said: “If you are strong enough, then help me pull the tree out of the forest.”

Okay,” answered the little man, “you put the trunk on your shoulders, and I will lift and carry the twigs and branches; it will be much heavier.”

The giant put the trunk on his shoulders, and the tailor sat down on one of the branches; and the giant, who could not look back, had to drag the whole tree and, in addition, the little tailor. And the little tailor was cheerful and whistled a song: “Three tailors drove up to the gate...”, as if dragging a tree was child’s play for him.

The giant dragged the heavy burden not far, but was unable to carry it further and shouted:

Listen, I’ll have to throw away the tree.

Then the tailor quickly jumped off the branch, grabbed the tree with both hands, as if he was carrying it alone, and said to the giant:

You're so big, but you can't carry a tree.

They moved on together. Passing by a cherry tree, the giant grabbed it by the top, on which the ripest cherries hung, bent it down, gave it to the tailor and began to treat him. But the tailor was too weak, he could not hold the branches, and when the giant let them go, the tree rose and the tailor flew into the air with him. He fell safely to the ground, and the giant said:

Why are you, are you really not able to hold such a small twig?

“I have enough strength,” answered the little tailor, “do you think that this means anything to the one who beat seven in one fell swoop?” It was I who jumped over the tree, because below there were hunters shooting at the bushes. Well, jump like that if you can.

The giant tried, but he could not jump over the tree and hung on the branches, so that the little tailor had the upper hand here too.

And the giant said:

If you are so brave, then come with me to our cave, and you will spend the night there.

The little tailor agreed and went after the giant. They approached the cave, and lo and behold, other giants were sitting there by the fire, and each of them had a roast sheep in his hand, and each of them was eating it. The little tailor looked around and thought: “It’s much more spacious here than in my tailor’s shop.”

The giant showed him the bed and told him to lie down and get a good night's sleep. But the bed was too big for the tailor; he did not lie down in it, but climbed into the very corner. Then midnight came, and the giant, thinking that the little tailor was sleeping in a deep sleep, got up, took a large iron crowbar and with one blow broke the bed in two, thinking that he had already destroyed this grasshopper.

Early in the morning the giants went into the forest, and forgot about the little tailor, and suddenly he comes out, cheerful and fearless, to meet them. Then the giants got scared and thought that he would kill them all, and they ran away.

And the little tailor moved on, wherever his eyes looked. He wandered for a long time and finally came to the courtyard of the royal palace and, feeling tired, lay down on the grass and fell asleep. While he was lying, people came, began to look at him from all sides and read the inscription on his belt: “He beat seven in one fell swoop.”

“Oh,” they said, “what does this noble hero want here in peacetime?” This must be some important person.

They went and announced this to the king, believing that in case of war he would be an important and necessary person here and that under no circumstances should he be released. The king liked this advice, and he sent one of his courtiers to the tailor, who was supposed to offer him, when he woke up, to join the king in military service.

The messenger approached the sleeping man, waited until he began to stretch and opened his eyes, and only then told him the royal commission.

“That’s why I came here,” answered the tailor. “Well, I’m ready to enter the king’s service.”

He was received with honors and given a special room. But the royal wars were unfriendly to the tailor and wanted to sell him somewhere far away. “What will come of this? - they said to each other. “If we quarrel with him, he’ll pounce on us and beat seven of us in one fell swoop.” None of us can stand against him here.” And so they decided to go together to the king and ask him for his resignation.

How can we stand, they said, next to such a man who beats seven in one fell swoop?

The king was saddened that he had to lose all his faithful servants because of one thing, and he wanted to quickly get rid of the tailor so as not to let him see him again. But the king did not dare to give him his resignation: he was afraid that he would kill him, and at the same time the courtiers, and he himself would sit on his throne. He thought and pondered for a long time and finally decided to do so. He sent to the tailor and told him to announce that he wanted to make him, as a great military hero, some proposal.

Two giants settled in one of the forests of his kingdom; they caused great harm with their robberies and robberies, arson and fires; and no one dares to approach them without being in mortal danger. So, if he defeats and kills these two giants, then he will give him his only daughter as a wife, and half the kingdom as a dowry, and a hundred horsemen will go with him to help.

“It would be nice for someone like me,” thought the little tailor, “to get the beautiful princess as a wife and half a kingdom into the bargain—this doesn’t happen every day.”

Oh yes! - he said in response. “I will defeat these giants, and I don’t need hundreds of horsemen for this; whoever beats seven in one fell swoop has nothing to fear from two.

And so the tailor set off on a hike, and a hundred horsemen rode behind him. Arriving at the edge of the forest, he said to his guides:

You stay here, and I’ll deal with the giants one on one. - And he dashed into the forest, looking around.

Soon he saw two giants. They lay under a tree and slept, and at the same time snored with all their might, so that even the branches on the trees swayed.

The little tailor, don’t be lazy, filled both his pockets with stones and climbed up the tree. He climbed halfway up the tree, climbed onto a branch, sat down just above the sleeping giants and began throwing stone after stone onto one of their chests. The giant did not notice anything for a long time, but finally woke up, pushed his friend in the side and said:

Why are you hitting me?

Yes, you dreamed about it,” he answered him, “I’m not hitting you at all.” - And they went to bed again. And the tailor took out a stone and threw it on the second giant.

What is this? - exclaimed the second. -What are you throwing at me?

“I’m not throwing anything at you,” the first one answered and began to grumble.

The giants quarreled like this for some time, and when they were both tired of it, they made peace and fell asleep again. And the tailor began his game again, chose a larger stone and threw it with all his might at the chest of the first giant.

This is too much! - he shouted, jumped up like crazy, and as he pushed his friend against the tree, it all began to tremble. The second one repaid him in the same coin, and they became so furious that they began to uproot trees with their feet and beat each other with them, until finally they both fell dead to the ground.

Then the little tailor jumped from the tree. “It’s also fortunate,” he said, “that they didn’t tear out the tree on which I was sitting, otherwise I would probably have had to jump like a squirrel from tree to tree - well, we are agile people!” He pulled out his sword and struck both giants in the chest with all his might, then came out of the forest to the horsemen and said:

It's done, I finished them both off. However, I had a hard time; Sensing trouble, they tore entire trees out of the ground to protect themselves, but this did not help them much, since someone like me appeared who could kill seven in one fell swoop.

Aren't you injured? - asked the riders.

“It turned out well,” the tailor answered, “and they didn’t touch a hair.”

The riders did not want to believe him and headed into the forest. They saw giants there, swimming in their own blood, and uprooted trees lay around them.

And then the little tailor demanded from the king the reward he had been promised, but he already repented of his promise and began again to figure out how he could get rid of such a hero.

“Before you get my daughter as a wife and half a kingdom into the bargain,” he told him, “you must perform one more heroic deed.” A unicorn lives in the forest, it causes great harm, you must catch it.

I fear the unicorn even less than the two giants; seven in one fell swoop - that's just the thing for me.

So he took a rope and an ax with him, went out into the forest and ordered the people who were given to help him to wait for him again at the forest edge. He didn't have to search long; The unicorn soon appeared and rushed straight at the tailor, intending to immediately impale him on his horn.

Be quiet, be quiet, said the tailor. - It won’t work out that quickly!

He stopped and waited until the animal came closer, then he quickly jumped back and hid behind a tree. The unicorn ran with all his might and stuck his horn into the trunk, so tightly that he did not have enough strength to pull it back - so he was caught.

“Now the bird is in my hands,” said the tailor and, coming out from behind the tree, he threw a rope around the unicorn’s neck, then cut off its horn with an ax, which was stuck in the tree, and when everything was in order, he led the animal out of the forest and brought him to the king.

But the king still did not want to give him the promised reward and made a third demand. For the wedding, the tailor had to catch him a wild boar, which causes great harm in the forest, and the huntsmen were supposed to help him in this matter.

Okay,” replied the tailor, “this is child’s play for me!”

He did not take the huntsmen with him into the forest, and they were very pleased with this, because the wild boar met them more than once in such a way that they lost the desire to chase him.

When the boar noticed the tailor, it rushed at him, foaming at the mouth and bared fangs, intending to knock him down. But the clever hero jumped into the chapel that was nearby and instantly jumped out through the window. The boar ran after him, and the tailor ran around the chapel and slammed the door behind him - here the fierce beast was caught: he was too heavy and awkward to jump out of the window.

Then the tailor called the huntsmen so that they could see the captured beast with their own eyes, and in the meantime our hero went to the king; and as much as he didn’t want to, he had to keep his promise, and he gave him his daughter and half the kingdom in addition.

If he had known that it was not a great hero standing before him, but a simple little tailor, he would have felt even more uneasy. The wedding was celebrated with great pomp and little joy; and so the tailor became king.

Some time later, at night, the young queen heard her husband talking in his sleep: “Boy, come on, sew me a jacket and mend my pants, otherwise I’ll hit you with a yardstick.” Then she guessed which alley this young man was from; The next morning she told her father about her grief and began to ask him to save her from such a husband - after all, he turned out to be a simple tailor. The king began to console her and said:

This night, do not lock your bedchamber, my servants will stand at the door, and when he falls asleep, they will come in, tie him up and carry him to the ship, and he will be taken to distant lands.

The queen was pleased with this, but the royal squire, who heard all this and was devoted to the young king, told him about this plan.

“I’ll handle this matter,” said the little tailor.

In the evening he went to bed with his wife at the usual time. She thought that he was already asleep, got up, opened the door and went back to bed. And the little tailor pretended to be asleep and began to shout loudly: “Boy, sew me a jacket and mend my pants, otherwise I’ll blow you with a yardstick!” I beat seven in one fell swoop, killed two giants, took a unicorn out of the forest and caught a wild boar - should I be afraid of those who stand behind the door!

When the servants heard what the tailor was saying, great fear seized them, and they ran away, as if a formidable army was chasing them on their heels. And from that time on, no one dared to touch the tailor again.

And so, just as the little tailor was a king, he remained one for the rest of his life.

One summer morning the tailor was sitting on his chair by the window, he was having fun, and he sewed with all his might. And a peasant woman was passing along that street, shouting: “I sell good jam! I sell good jam!” The little tailor was pleased to hear this; he stretched his sinewy neck out the window and shouted:

- Hey, my dear, come upstairs, here you can sell your goods!

The woman went up with her heavy basket to the tailor on the third floor and began to untie all her pots in front of him. He looked at them all, examined them all, picked them up, looked closely, smelled them and finally said:

— The jam seems good. Well, give me four lots, my dear, otherwise I’ll probably take the whole quarter of a pound.

The woman, hoping to sell a lot of her goods, sold the tailor as much as he asked and left, grumbling with frustration.

- Well, God bless this jam! - exclaimed the tailor. - And may he send me cheerfulness and strength!

With these words, the little tailor took bread out of the cabinet, cut out a piece of bread and spread it with jam.

“It probably won’t be bad,” he said. “But first I’ll finish my jacket, and then I’ll eat properly.”

He put a piece of bread next to him and continued to sew, and to rejoice he began to sew with large stitches. Meanwhile, the smell of sweet jam spread throughout the room, and many flies sitting on the wall sensed it and flocked to the bread in a swarm.

- Hey, you, who called you here? - said the little tailor and began to drive away the uninvited guests.

But the flies did not understand the German language, did not listen to him, and even more of them flew in. Here the tailor, as they say, finally ran out of patience, he lost his temper, rushed over, grabbed the cloth and shouted “Wait, I’ll give it to you!” without any pity he smacked the flies with all his might. He took the cloth, looked, counted, and lying in front of him, with their legs outstretched, were no less than seven flies, killed dead.

- That's how great I am! - he said and was surprised at his courage. “The whole city needs to know about this.”

The tailor hastily cut out a belt, sewed it and embroidered on it in large letters: “He beat seven in one fell swoop.”

“Why, the city,” he continued to reason further, “the whole world should know about this!” - and his heart beat with joy, like a ram’s tail.

And the tailor girded himself with a belt and prepared to set off across the world, considering that the tailor’s workshop was too small for his courage. But before setting off on his journey, he began to rummage around the whole house to see if there was anything that he could take with him, but he did not find anything except a head of old cheese, and he took it with him. At the gate he saw a bird, caught it in the bushes and also put it in his pocket along with the cheese. Then he boldly set off on his way, and he was light and agile, and when he climbed to the very top, he saw a huge giant sitting there and calmly looking around.

The little tailor boldly approached him, spoke to him and asked:

- Hello, comrade! Why are you sitting here and looking at the whole world, free and wide? So I’m going to wander around the world, I want to try my luck, don’t you want to go with me?

The giant looked contemptuously at the tailor and said:

- Hey, you ragamuffin! Poor man!

- No matter how it is! - answered the little tailor, unbuttoned his caftan and showed the giant his belt. “Here, you can read for yourself what kind of person I am.”

The giant read: “He beat seven in one fell swoop” and thought that we were talking about the people who were killed by the tailor, and he felt some respect for this little man. But he wanted to test it first: so he took the stone in his hand and squeezed it so that water came out of it.

“You try the same,” said the giant, “if you have enough strength.”

- Is that all? - asked the little tailor. - Yes, this is just fun.

The little tailor took a head of soft cheese from his pocket and squeezed it so that the juice flowed out of it.

“Well,” he said, “perhaps it will be better than yours?”

The giant did not know what to say to him - he never expected this from the little man. And then the giant picked up a stone and threw it up, so high that it disappeared from sight.

- Come on, drake, try it too.

“Well, it was thrown well,” said the tailor. - But the stone, however, fell to the ground again; and I’ll leave him so that he won’t come back.

The little tailor took the bird out of his pocket and threw it up. The bird, rejoicing at its freedom, took off, rose high into the sky and never returned.

- Well, how do you like it? - asked the tailor.

“You know how to throw well,” said the giant. “But let’s see if you can bear more weight.”

The giant led the little tailor to a huge oak tree that lay cut down on the ground and said:

“If you are strong enough, then help me take the tree out of the forest.”

“Okay,” answered the little man, “you put the trunk on your shoulders, and I will lift and carry the twigs and branches, it will be much heavier.”

The giant put the trunk on his shoulders, and the tailor sat down on one of the branches, and the giant, who could not look back, had to drag the whole tree and, in addition, the tailor. And the little tailor was cheerful and whistled a song: “Three tailors rode up to the gate,” as if dragging a tree was child’s play for him.

The giant dragged the heavy burden not far, but was unable to carry it further and shouted:

- Listen, I’ll have to throw away the tree.

Then the tailor quickly jumped off the branch, grabbed the tree with both hands, as if he was carrying it himself, and said to the giant:

“You’re so big, but you can’t carry a tree.”

They went further together; passing by a cherry tree, the giant grabbed it by the top, on which the ripest cherries hung, bent it down, handed it to the tailor and began to treat him. But the tailor was too weak to hold the tree, and when the giant let go, it rose, and the tailor flew up with it. He fell safely to the ground, and the giant said: “What’s wrong with you, are you really not able to hold this small twig?”

“That’s enough strength,” answered the little tailor, “do you think that this means anything to the one who beat seven in one fell swoop?” It was I who jumped over the tree, because below there were hunters shooting at the bushes. Come on, jump if you can.

The giant tried, but he could not jump over the tree and hung on the branches, so that the little tailor had the upper hand here too.

And the giant said:

- If you are so brave, then come with me to our cave, you will spend the night with us.

The little tailor agreed and went after the giant. They approached the cave, and there other giants were sitting around the fire, and each of them had a roast sheep in his hand, and each of them was eating it. The little tailor looked around and thought: “It’s much more spacious here than in my tailor’s shop.” The giant showed him the bed and told him to lie down and get a good night's sleep. But the bed was too big for the tailor, and he did not lie down on it, but climbed into the very corner. Then midnight came, and the giant, thinking that the little tailor was sleeping in a deep sleep, got up, took a large iron crowbar and with one blow broke the bed in two, thinking that he had already exterminated this “grasshopper”. Early in the morning the giants went into the forest, and forgot about the little tailor, and he suddenly comes out cheerful and undaunted to meet them. Then the giants got scared and thought that he would kill them all, and they ran away in a hurry.

And the little tailor moved on, wherever his eyes looked. He wandered for a long time and finally came to the courtyard of the royal palace and, feeling tired, lay down on the grass and fell asleep. While he was lying, people came, began to look at him from all sides and read on his belt: “He beat seven in one fell swoop.”

“Oh,” they said, “what does this great hero want here in peacetime?” This must be some powerful person.

People went and announced this to the king, thinking that in case of war he would be an important and necessary person here and that under no circumstances should he be released. The king liked this advice, and he sent one of his courtiers to the tailor, who was supposed to offer him, when he woke up, to join the king in military service. The messenger approached the sleeping man, waited until he began to stretch and opened his eyes, and then he outlined the royal commission to him.

“That’s why I came here,” answered the tailor. “Well, I’m ready to enter the king’s service.”

The courtiers received the little tailor with honors and gave him a special room. But the royal soldiers treated the newcomer badly and wanted to sell him somewhere far away. “What will come of this? - they said to each other. “If we quarrel with him, he’ll pounce on us and beat seven of us in one fell swoop.” None of us can stand against him here.” And so they decided this: they all went together to the king and began to ask to resign.

“Where can we stand,” they said, “next to such a man who beats seven in one fell swoop?”

The king was saddened that he had to lose all his faithful servants because of one thing, and he wanted to quickly get rid of the tailor, so as not to let him see him again. But he did not dare to give him his resignation: he was afraid that he would beat him, and at the same time the courtiers, and he himself would sit on his throne. He thought and pondered for a long time and finally decided to do so. He sent to the little tailor and told him to announce that, as a great military hero, he wanted to make him some proposal. Two giants settled in one of the forests of his kingdom and caused great harm through robberies, robberies, arson and fires; and no one dared to approach them without being in mortal danger. If he defeats and kills these two giants, then he will give him his only daughter as a wife, and half the kingdom as a dowry; and a hundred horsemen will ride with him to help. “It would be nice for someone like me,” thought the little tailor, “to get the beautiful princess as a wife and half the kingdom in addition, this doesn’t happen every day.”

“Oh yes,” he said in response, “I will conquer these giants, and I don’t need hundreds of horsemen for this: whoever beats seven in one fell swoop has nothing to fear from two.”

And so the little tailor set off on a campaign, and a hundred horsemen rode behind him. Approaching the edge of the forest, he said to his guides:

“You stay here, and I’ll deal with the giants myself.”

The little tailor darted into the forest, looking around. Soon he saw two giants; They lay under a tree and slept, and snored with all their might, so that the branches on the trees swayed.

The little tailor, don’t be lazy, filled both his pockets with stones and climbed up the tree. He climbed halfway up the tree, climbed onto a branch, sat down just above the sleeping giants and began throwing stone after stone onto one of their chests. The giant did not notice anything for a long time, but finally woke up, pushed his friend in the side and asked:

- Why are you hitting me?

“Yes, you’re dreaming,” he answered. “I’m not hitting you at all.”

They went to bed again; and the tailor took the stone and threw it on the second giant.

- What is this? - exclaimed the second. -What are you throwing at me?

“I’m not throwing anything at you,” the first one answered and began to grumble.

The giants quarreled like this for some time, and when they were both tired of it, they stopped quarreling and fell asleep again. And the little tailor began his game again: he chose a larger stone and threw it with all his might into the chest of the first giant.

- This is too much! - shouted the first giant.

He jumped up like crazy and pushed his friend against the tree so hard that it shook. The second one repaid him in the same coin, and they became so furious that they began to uproot trees and beat each other with them, until finally both fell dead to the ground. Then the little tailor jumped from the tree. “It’s also fortunate,” he said to himself, “that they didn’t tear out the tree on which I was sitting, otherwise I would probably have had to jump, like a squirrel, from one tree to another. Well, we are nimble people!” He pulled out his sword and struck both giants in the chest with all his might; then came out of the forest to the horsemen and said:

“The job was done, I finished both of them off, but I had a hard time: they, sensing trouble, tore entire trees out of the ground to protect themselves, but it didn’t help them much, since someone like me appeared, who beats seven in one fell swoop.”

-Are you not injured? - asked the riders.

“It turned out well,” answered the tailor, “and a hair on my head was not touched.”

The riders did not want to believe him and headed into the forest. And they saw giants there, swimming in their own blood, and around them lay uprooted trees.

And the little tailor demanded from the king the reward he had been promised, but he already repented of his promise and began again to figure out how he could get rid of such a hero.

“Before you get my daughter as a wife and half the kingdom in addition,” he told him, “you must perform one more heroic deed.” A unicorn lives in the forest, it causes great harm, you must catch it.

“I’m even less afraid of a unicorn than of two giants.”

He took a rope and an ax with him, went out into the forest and ordered the people who were given to help him to wait for him again at the edge of the forest. He didn't have to search long; The unicorn soon appeared and rushed straight at the tailor, intending to immediately impale him on his horn.

“Quiet, be quiet,” said the tailor, “things won’t go so quickly.”

He stopped and waited for the animal to come closer to him, then he quickly jumped back and hid behind a tree. The unicorn ran with all his might and stuck his horn into the trunk, so tightly that he did not have enough strength to pull it out again. That's how he got caught.

“Now the bird is in my hands,” said the tailor, he came out from behind the tree, threw a rope around the unicorn’s neck, then cut off the horn that was stuck in the tree with an ax, and when everything was in order, he led the animal out of the forest and brought him to the king.

But the king even now did not want to give him the promised reward and made a third demand. For his wedding, the tailor had to catch a wild boar that was causing trouble in the forest.

“Okay,” replied the tailor, “it’s just like child’s play for me.”

He did not take the hunters with him into the forest, and they were very pleased with this, because the wild boar more than once met them in such a way that they lost the desire to chase him. When the boar noticed the tailor, he rushed at him, foaming at the mouth and baring his tusks, intending to knock him down; but the clever hero jumped into the chapel that was nearby and immediately jumped out through the window. The boar ran in after him, and the tailor ran around the chapel and slammed the door behind him. So the ferocious beast was caught; it was too heavy and awkward to jump out of the window. The little tailor called the hunters so that they could look at the captured beast with their own eyes, and in the meantime our hero went to the king, and as much as he didn’t want to, he had to keep his promise, and he gave him his daughter and half of the kingdom in addition.

If he had known that it was not a great hero standing in front of him, but a little tailor, he would have felt even more uneasy. And they celebrated the wedding with great pomp and little joy, and then the tailor became king.

After some time, at night, the young queen heard her husband saying in his sleep: “Boy, come on, sew me a jacket and mend my pants, otherwise I’ll beat you with a yardstick.” Then she guessed which alley the young man was from, the next morning she told her father about her grief and began to ask him to save her from such a husband - after all, he turned out to be a simple tailor. The king began to console her and said:

“Don’t lock your bedchamber this night, my servants will stand at the door, and when he falls asleep, they will come in, tie him up and take him to the ship, and he will be taken to distant lands.”

The queen was pleased with this, but the royal squire, who heard all this and was devoted to the young king, told him about this plan.

“I can handle this matter,” said the little tailor.

In the evening he went to bed with his wife at the usual time; She thought he was already asleep, got up, opened the door and went back to bed. And the little tailor pretended to be asleep and began to shout in a loud voice: “Boy, sew me a jacket and mend my pants, otherwise I’ll blow you with a yardstick!” I beat seven in one fell swoop, killed two giants, led a unicorn out of the forest and caught a wild boar - should I be afraid of those who stand (behind the door!) The servants heard what the tailor was saying, and great fear fell upon them, and they ran away , as if a furious army was chasing them on their heels, and from that time no one dared to touch the tailor again.

And so, when the little tailor became a king, he remained one for the rest of his life.

Once upon a time there lived a cheerful tailor. One summer day he was sewing near an open window. A woman selling jam passed by. The little tailor invited the saleswoman to his place, tried all the jam and bought very little. The woman was upset; she was going to sell him a lot more.

Having spread the jam, he put a piece of bread on a plate and continued sewing. The aroma filled the entire room, and a bunch of flies flocked to it from the street. The tailor grabbed a rag and began to drive away the uninvited guests. By hitting the flies, he killed several. Looking at the killed flies, he praised himself and decided that everyone should know about his feat.

He got ready and went, reaching the mountain, he met the giant and invited him to travel together, but the giant did not want to talk to him. Then the little tailor said that he had killed seven in one fell swoop. The giant thought that he had overcome the people and gained respect for him. At the same time, he decided to test his new acquaintance and, taking a stone in his hands, squeezed water out of it. He offered to do the same thing to the man. The tailor was not at a loss, taking a head of cheese out of his pocket, squeezing it and the juice began to flow. The giant did not know what to answer to this and decided to invite him to his cave.

The next morning, having frightened all the giants, the man moved on. Everywhere he appeared, people began to respect him, considering him the strongest. He was even taken into the service of the king to protect his possessions. Soon two giants appeared in the forest, whom they could not drive away. They asked the brave little tailor, of course, he took them not by force, but by cunning. Despite the victory, the king did not want to reward him, and he came up with a new task for him. To catch the unicorn, which he managed with the help of dexterity and cunning, the tailor completed the third task in the same way. The king grieved, but he celebrated the wedding. There is nothing you can do, promises must be kept.

One night, the young queen found out what area her husband was from and asked her father to rid her of him. The king had a plan that was not destined to come true. By this time, the tailor had acquired loyal friends who helped him out.

And so, purely by chance, the young tailor became king and reigned happily ever after. It turns out that it is not always possible to achieve success with force alone; it requires cunning and ingenuity, as well as courage.

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Once upon a time there was a tailor. One day he was working in his workshop at the table and suddenly heard a woman’s voice in the yard.

- Jam, I sell jam!
The tailor looked out of the window and shouted:
- Come here, dear woman. I'll buy your jam.
The merchant picked up the heavy basket, climbed the steep steps into the tailor’s workshop and laid out her jams and marmalade in front of him. The tailor opened all the jars in turn and smelled their contents. Finally he said:
- I’ll take three spoons of this.
The merchant was disappointed that he took so little, but still measured out the measure and went home.

The tailor spread jam on a piece of bread and placed it on the table.
“I’ll finish this shirt and then eat it,” he said to himself.
The smell of jam soon attracted flies.
- Let's go away! - the little tailor shouted. But the flies did not understand his words and continued to circle over the jam.
The angry little tailor swung a rag at them and seven dead flies fell to the floor.
- Just seven. “An unprecedented thing!” exclaimed the little tailor. “Everyone in the world should know about this.”
He made himself a leather belt with the inscription: KILLING SEVEN IN ONE FLOW. The tailor put on his new belt and set off around the world. And in order not to get hungry, he put a piece of cheese in his pocket. I found a bird in the yard and also put it in my pocket.

On the outskirts of the city, the little tailor met a terrible giant.
“Hello,” said the tailor. - I travel around the world in search of wealth. Would you like to join me?
The giant just laughed:
“You, poor little thing, must be completely crazy.”
This little tailor was struck to the quick:
- Look at my belt, then you will know who I am.
The giant read the inscription and thought that the tailor had killed seven people. However, I could not believe that such a frail-looking man could be such a strong man. The giant decided to test the little tailor. He grabbed a stone and squeezed it so hard that water flowed out of the stone.

“You won’t be able to do it,” he told the tailor.
The little tailor took a piece of cheese from his pocket and squeezed it so that whey flowed out of the cheese.
However, this did not convince the giant. He grabbed a stone and threw it far, far away.
“Try it,” said the giant.
“Not bad,” the tailor agreed. - But notice that the stone still fell to the ground. - With these words, he pulled a bird out of his pocket and threw it into the sky. The bird rejoiced at freedom and disappeared into the sky.

“But if you are such a strong man, help me lift this tree,” said the giant, pointing to a huge oak tree.
“With pleasure,” answered the little tailor. - You take the trunk, and I will carry the branches, because there are much more of them and they are heavier.
The giant walked ahead and did not notice that the tailor sat down among the branches.
Soon the giant said:
- I'm tired and need to rest for a minute.
The little tailor quickly jumped out of the tree, grabbed the branches and pretended that he was carrying the tree along with the giant.
“Apparently, you are not as strong as you think,” remarked the little tailor.
They walked further until they saw a cherry tree strewn with berries. The ripest cherries were at the top and the giant tilted the tree so that the tailor could pick them.
But when the little tailor grabbed the top, the tree suddenly straightened and the little tailor flew to the other side in one fell swoop.
- Me too. “You can’t even hold a twig,” said the giant.
“Of course I can,” answered the little tailor. - I jumped over the tree on purpose. Come on, try it. Let's see if we succeed.

The giant tried to jump, but one leg got entangled in the branches. At that time, the king and his retinue were passing by.
- What's going on here? - he asked.
“Nothing special, Your Royal Majesty,” answered the tailor. - I just caught a giant.

For many years the giant annoyed the local residents and the grateful king gave the tailor a bag of gold as a reward.
The news of how the brave little tailor caught the terrible giant instantly spread throughout the world. So the tailor became famous and rich. And he began to live and live and make good things.