Reading Notes: English Fairy Tales, Part A
The Old Woman and Her Pig
Story source: English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by John D. Batten (1890).
Once upon a time, an old woman was sweeping her house and found a crooked sixpence. The old woman wondered what she should buy with the money and decided that she would go to the market and buy a little pig. One the way home from buying the pig from the market, the woman and the pig reached a stile and the pig would not cross it. Along came a dog and the old woman told the dog to bite the pig so that the pig would cross the stile and they could get home. However, the dog would not bite the pig. Next, the woman ran into a stick and she asked the stick to poke the pig in order to get over the stile. The stick would not poke the pig. The woman then ran into water, fire, ox, butcher, rat, cat, rope, ox and they both denied to help her get the pig over the stile. Finally, the woman ran into a cow and asked if he would help her. He said he would if she got him some hay from the haystack. When the woman returned with the hay, the cow ate the hay and gave the woman some milk, the cat lapped the milk, the cat killed the rat, the rat gnawed on the rope, the rope began to hang the butcher, the butcher killed the ox, the ox drank the water, the water quenched the fire, the fire burned the stick, the stick began to beat the dog, the dog bit the pig and the pig jumped over the stile. The woman and her pig made it home that night.
Binnorie
Story source:English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by John D. Batten (1890).
Story source: English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by John D. Batten (1890).
Once upon a time, an old woman was sweeping her house and found a crooked sixpence. The old woman wondered what she should buy with the money and decided that she would go to the market and buy a little pig. One the way home from buying the pig from the market, the woman and the pig reached a stile and the pig would not cross it. Along came a dog and the old woman told the dog to bite the pig so that the pig would cross the stile and they could get home. However, the dog would not bite the pig. Next, the woman ran into a stick and she asked the stick to poke the pig in order to get over the stile. The stick would not poke the pig. The woman then ran into water, fire, ox, butcher, rat, cat, rope, ox and they both denied to help her get the pig over the stile. Finally, the woman ran into a cow and asked if he would help her. He said he would if she got him some hay from the haystack. When the woman returned with the hay, the cow ate the hay and gave the woman some milk, the cat lapped the milk, the cat killed the rat, the rat gnawed on the rope, the rope began to hang the butcher, the butcher killed the ox, the ox drank the water, the water quenched the fire, the fire burned the stick, the stick began to beat the dog, the dog bit the pig and the pig jumped over the stile. The woman and her pig made it home that night.
Binnorie
Story source:English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by John D. Batten (1890).
There were two daughters of the king who lived in a bower near the milldams of Binnorie. Many princes from around coming wooing for their love, one of them won her love, his name was Sir William. Sir William at first fell in love in the older sister, but soon began to fall in love with the younger sister and did not care anymore for the older one. The older sister began to hate her younger sister for taking her love away from her and planned each day how she was going to get rid of her.
One morning the sisters went to see their father's boats come in at the bay. They went to the river bank and the younger sister got on a stone to watch the boats come in. The older sister pushed her into the river. The younger sister was crying form the river for her sister to help her out. The sister began floating down the river struggling to stay above the water. A miller fished her our of the water but she had already drowned. She lied on the side of the rivers bank beautiful as ever with her hair glistening in the sunlight. A famous harper walked by and recognized the dead princess and mad her into a harp and went to the castle to sing a song with the harp. In the stone the harper says that her older sister killed the younger sister.
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