"Three Spinning Girls"

Once upon a time there was a girl who was very lazy and would not spin at all.

Finally, one day, my mother felt that she couldn't bear it anymore, so she beat her up, and she burst into tears. Just then the queen passed by the door in a carriage, heard the cry, ordered the carriage to stop, and went into the house to ask the mother why she beat her daughter. The mother had the nerve to say how lazy her daughter was, so she replied: "I told her not to spin anymore, but she just didn't listen, and kept spinning on the spinning wheel. I'm poor, how can I buy it?" so much flax."

The queen heard this and said, "I love spinning the most. Let your daughter come with me to the palace. I have plenty of flax. She can spin as much as she likes."

When the mother heard this, she was very happy in her heart, and she agreed, and the queen took the girl away.

When they came to the palace, the queen led the girl upstairs, and showed her three storerooms, which were filled with the best flax. "Here, spin this flax for me," said the Queen, "and when you finish spinning, marry my eldest son."

The girl was terrified when she heard this—even if she spun from morning to night every day, until she was three hundred years old, she would never have finished spinning so much flax. When the girl was left alone, she began to cry. She just sat weeping like this, and three days passed in a flash, and she hadn't started spinning yet. On the third day, the girl didn't know what to do, and came to the window worriedly. Just then she saw three women approaching: the first woman had a broad flat foot; the second had a long lower lip, hanging down to her chin; . The three women stopped under the window and asked the girl why she was worried, and she told them her troubles.

"As long as you don't disgrace us," they said to the girl, "invite us to your wedding, and say we are your cousins, and let us drink at your table, and we will finish spinning the flax for you."

"I'd love to," replied the girl.

After all, the girl let these three strange-looking women into the house. They came in and started spinning as soon as they sat down. Every time the queen came, the girl was afraid that the queen would find out, so she hid the three spinning girls and let the queen see the yarn that had been spun. After the queen saw it, she was full of praise.

When all the flax in the warehouse had been spun, the three weavers bid farewell to the girl, saying to her before they left: "You must not forget the promise you made to us, and your own happiness is at stake. "

The girl showed the queen three empty warehouses and piles of yarn piled up like hills, and the queen arranged the wedding.

"I have three cousins," said the girl, "who have treated me very well. In my own happiness, I would not have been indifferent to them. Allow me to invite them to the wedding, and let them be with us at the wedding feast. sit together."

The queen and prince readily agreed. On the day of the wedding, the three spinning girls did come. They dress up in weird ways, which makes people laugh. The bride immediately went up to her and said, "Welcome, dear cousins."

"Why are your cousins ​​so ugly?" asked the prince. Then, he turned around and walked to the woman with big feet, and asked, "Why is one of your feet so big?"

"Tread on a spinning wheel," she replied.

The groom went to the second woman and asked, "Why are your lips drooping?"

"Lick the twine," she replied.

Then he asked the third woman, "How can your thumb be so wide?"

"It's twisted with twine," she replied.

The prince was shocked when he heard the answer of the three, so he said: "My beautiful bride will never touch the spinning wheel again."

In this way, the girl no longer has to do the annoying work of spinning.