格林童话 勇敢的小裁缝 第12节｜英语名著

The valiant little tailorC12"Then are you not wounded?" asked the horsemen. "Nothing of the sort!" answered the tailor, "I have not turned a hair." The horsemen still would not believe it, and rode into the wood to see, and there they found the giants wallowing in their blood, and all about them lying the uprooted trees. The little tailor then claimed the promised boon, but the King repented him of his offer, and he sought again how to rid himself of the hero. "Before you can possess my daughter and the half of my kingdom," said he to the tailor, "you must perform another heroic act. In the wood lives a unicorn who does great damage; you must secure him.""A unicorn does not strike more terror into me than two giants. Seven at one blow! - that is my way," was the tailor's answer. So, taking a rope and an axe with him, he went out into the wood, and told those who were ordered to attend him to wait outside.骑士们策马跑进森林一看，两个巨人躺在血泊之中，四周还有连根拔出的大树，这才相信了小裁缝的话。返回后，小裁缝要求国王把答应给他的奖赏赐给他，国王却后悔了，又左思右想，考虑怎样才能把小裁缝打发走。"你在得到我的女儿和半个王国之前，"他说，"必须再完成一个壮举。在那座森林里，有一头危害很大的独角兽，你必须把它捕捉住。""两个巨人我都没怕，一头独角兽又有什么可怕的呀。"小裁缝吹嘘道。小裁缝带着一根绳索和一把斧头便动身去了森林，告诉他的随从们在森林外等着。