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Title: Grimm's Fairy Tales; The Three Sluggards
Date of first publication: 1930
Author: Jacob Grimm (1785-1863)
Author: Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859)
Illustrator: Noel Pocock (1880-1955)
Date first posted: November 9 2012
Date last updated: November 9 2012
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Title: Grimm's Fairy Tales; The Three Sluggards
Date of first publication: 1930
Author: Jacob Grimm (1785-1863)
Author: Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859)
Illustrator: Noel Pocock (1880-1955)
Date first posted: November 9 2012
Date last updated: November 9 2012
Faded Page eBook #20121123

This ebook was produced by: David Edwards, Delphine Lettau
& the Online Distributed Proofreading Canada Team at http://www.pgdpcanada.net


(This file was produced from images generously made available by
The Internet Archive/American Libraries).




The Three Sluggards


The king of a country a long way off had three sons. He liked one as
well as another, and did not know which to leave his kingdom to after
his death: so when he was dying he called them all to him, and said,
"Dear children, the laziest sluggard of the three shall be king after
me." "Then," said the eldest, "the kingdom is mine; for I am so lazy
that when I lie down to sleep, if anything were to fall into my eyes so
that I could not shut them, I should still go on sleeping." The second
said, "Father, the kingdom belongs to me; for I am so lazy that when I
sit by the fire to warm myself, I would sooner have my toes burnt than
take the trouble to draw my legs back." The third said, "Father, the
kingdom is mine; for I am so lazy that if I were going to be hanged,
with the rope round my neck, and somebody were to put a sharp knife into
my hands to cut it, I had rather be hanged than raise my hand to do it."
When the father heard this, he said, "You shall be the king; for you are
the fittest man."


[The end of _Grimm's Fairy Tales; The Three Sluggards_
by the Brothers Grimm]