On a sunny summer morning, a little tailor sat by the window table, doing his best to do his job. At this time, a peasant woman came up on the street, shouting as she walked: "Buy jam!" Good quality and low price! The little tailor thought it was pleasant, so he put his curly-haired head out of the window, and cried out:

"Come up here, dear madam, you have someone to ask for your goods!"

The peasant woman, carrying a heavy basket in her hand, stepped up the steps to the little tailor and opened one jar after another as he commanded. The little tailor examined them one by one, and raised the jar to his nose and sniffed it again and again, before he finally said, "Give me four ounces, my dear lady, and half a pound." ”

The peasant woman, who thought she had found a good buyer, gave him the little jam she had asked for, and then grunted away.

"God willing," cried the little tailor, "these jams give me a good appetite." ”

He took the bread out of the cupboard, cut it into a slice, and spread the jam on it. "I know in my heart that I won't be unpalatable," he said, "but I'll have to finish this vest before I can eat it." ”

So he put the jam-coated bread beside him and continued to sew it, feeling so good in his heart that the stitches were getting bigger and bigger. At this moment, the sweet smell of the jam attracted a swarm of flies gathered on the wall, and they all landed on the bread to taste the delicacy.

"How can I have your share?" The little tailor said and drove the flies away. The flies paid no attention to what he said, and refused to go, so more and more flies landed on the bread. At this moment, the little tailor was furious, grabbed a towel and struck down on the flies, killing seven flies, some of them even flying their legs.

"You're amazing!" He said, praising his bravery, "The whole city should know about your feat." After that, the little tailor cut a belt for himself in a hurry, and after sewing it, he embroidered a few bold characters on it: "Kill seven at once!" "It's not just the whole city," he suddenly shouted, "and the whole world has to know about it!" When he said this, his heart was beating with joy, like the tail of a little lamb.

The little tailor fastened his belt around his waist and planned to go out into the world, for it seemed to him that it would be useless for him to remain in a small workshop with his bravery. Before leaving, he searched around to see if there was anything worth carrying, but he only found a quick stale cheese, which he put in his pocket. In front of the door, he noticed a bird stumbling in the bushes, and caught it and put it in a cheese pocket.

Then he triumphantly hit the road. Due to his short stature, he was as light as a swallow and did not feel tired at all when he walked. Walking and walking, I came to a big mountain. When he reached the top of the mountain, he saw a mighty giant sitting there, looking around leisurely. The little tailor boldly went up to the giant and greeted him:

"Hello, man. You're sitting here looking out over the world, aren't you? I'm about to go into the world, how about it, do you have the heart to go with me? ”

The giant glanced at him contemptuously, and said to him in a loud voice, "You poor little wretch! Weak and can't help the wind! ”

"Aha, you look down on me so much, don't you? Look here! The little tailor replied. As he spoke, he unbuttoned his shirt and showed his belt to the giant. "You know what kind of person I am when you think about it."

The giant read, "Kill seven at once." Thinking that the tailor killed seven people at once, he couldn't help but have some respect for the little tailor. However, he was determined to try his hand at the little tailor, so he picked up a quick stone and pinched it with his hand until water dripped from it.

"If you have the strength," said the giant, "do the same." ”

"That's it?" The little tailor said, "To me, it's like a play." As he spoke, he put his hand in his pocket, took out the soft cheese, and pinched it gently, and ** came out.

The giant didn't know what to say, but he wondered if such a little man really had that much strength. Then he picked up another quick stone and threw it into the air, so high that it was almost invisible to the naked eye.

"Well," said the giant, "come also, poor little man." ”

"Indeed, it was thrown quite high," replied the little tailor, "but the stone you threw fell back to the ground." I will show you a hand, throw it out and it will not fall back. ”

With that, he grabbed the bird from his pocket and threw it into the air. The freed bird flew away with joy and disappeared without looking back. "Hey, man, this one is okay, right?" The little tailor asked.

"I don't deny it, you're okay throwing things." The giant replied, "Now I'll see if you can carry the heavy stuff." ”

He led the little tailor to a large oak tree that had been cut down to the ground. "If you really have the strength, help me carry this tree out of the woods."

"All right," said the little tailor, "you carry the trunk, and I carry the branches, which are the hardest to get." ”

The giant carried the trunk, but the little tailor sat on a branch. The giant could not look back, and had to carry the whole tree and the little tailor sitting on the branch.

The little tailor sat in the back, cheerful, whistling happily, and singing the song "The three tailors rode out of town," and carrying the tree seemed to him to be a game.

The giant carried the heavy tree for some distance, and was so tired that he could not breathe, and shouted that he could no longer walk, and that he must put the tree down.

The little tailor jumped down at once, put his arms around the tree, and made it look as if he was carrying the tree all the way, and then said to the giant, "You are such a big man, you can't even carry a tree!" ”

They walked on as fast as they could, and came to a cherry tree, the canopy of which was full of ripe cherries. The giant grabbed the canopy, pulled it down, and handed it to the little tailor to eat enough. But how could the little tailor have so much strength to grasp the cherry tree, and as soon as the giant let go, the tree suddenly straightened up, and the little tailor was bounced into the air.

The little tailor landed safely, and the giant cried out, "Ahem! You don't even have the strength to hold on to such a twig? ”

"What does this have to do with strength!" The little tailor replied, "I can kill seven at once, do you think I can't hold even a twig?" A hunter in the woods was about to shoot at me, so I hurried over the top of the tree. If you have the ability, jump and show me. ”

The giant tried, but failed to jump over, and was hung between the branches. In this way, the small tailor again prevailed.

Then the giant said, "You are a great little warrior, so please go and spend the night in my cave." ”

The little tailor was willing, and went with him. When they came to the cave, they saw some giants sitting around the fire, each with a roast sheep in his hand, eating it as if it were bread. The little tailor thought to himself, "This is much better than my workshop." The giant pointed out to him a bed and told him to lie down and rest. But the bed was too big for the little tailor, and instead of lying in the middle of the bed, he crawled into a corner. In the middle of the night, the giant, thinking that the little tailor was asleep, grabbed a large iron nail, and stabbed it on the bed, thinking that the little grasshopper had been solved.

At dawn the next day, the giants set out into the woods, and forgot all about the little tailor. The little tailor, still alive and carefree as usual, walked towards them. When the giants saw it, they thought that the little tailor was going to kill them, and they were so frightened that they ran away. The little tailor continued on his way, and went on his way.

After walking for a long time, the little tailor came to the courtyard of a royal palace. By this time he was exhausted, and fell asleep on the ground. While he was lying there sleeping, many people came and saw the words embroidered on his belt: "Kill seven at once!" "Oops!" They thought to themselves, "This must be an amazing hero." What is he doing here in peacetime? They immediately went to report to the king, saying that if war broke out, this man would be of great use, and that he must not be let go.

The king appreciated the idea, and sent one of his ministers to the little tailor, and as soon as he awoke, he asked him to serve in the army. The messenger stood aside and watched the little tailor sleeping until he stretched his waist and slowly opened his eyes before making a request to him.

"That's what I have come for," replied the little tailor, "and I am glad to serve the king." ”

He was given a grand reception and a chic residence. But the other officers were jealous, and wished he had left the place sooner. "If we fight him," they conversed, "how can he kill seven of us at once?" We're all set. "Later, they decided to go to the king as soon as possible and offered to resign en masse." We men," they explained to the king, "cannot work with a great hero who kills seven men at once. ”

The king was very sad to lose all his loyal officers because of one man, and wished he had never seen the little tailor at all, and wished that he would be sent away sooner. However, the king did not have the courage to drive him away, fearing that the little tailor would slay him and his subjects and take the throne himself. He racked his brain, pondered, and finally came up with an idea. He sent for the little tailor to tell him that he was a hero, brave and brave, and that he wished to make the following proposal to him:

In his domain, there was a great forest, and in the forest lived two giants, who burned and robbed all kinds of evil, and did great harm, but so far no one dared to risk their lives to fight them. If the little tailor could subdue and kill the two giants, the king promised to marry him his only daughter, and to give him half a kingdom, and to send him a hundred knights to help him.

"What an encouragement for a man like you," thought the little tailor, "what a golden opportunity for a beautiful princess and half a kingdom." ”

So, he replied, "Of course, I'll subdue the two giants." I don't need a hundred knights. A hero like me can kill seven at once, so how can those two be my opponents? ”

The little tailor set out, followed by a hundred knights. When they came to the forest, he said to the knights, "Stay here, and I'll go and clean up the two guys alone." So saying, he ran into the forest alone, looking around as he went. It didn't take long for the two giants to be discovered. The two of them were sleeping under a big tree, snoring like thunder, and the branches were about to be shaken off. The little tailor busied himself filling the two pockets with stones and climbed up the tree. Halfway up, he crept up a branch, and under the branch were the heads of the two sleeping giants. Then he slammed the stones into the chest of one of the giants one after another. The big guy didn't move for a while, but then he finally woke up, pushed his companion hard, and asked, "Why are you hitting me?" ”

"Are you dreaming," replied another, "who hit you?" ”

After saying that, the two of them lay down and slept again. This time, the little tailor threw a stone at the second giant.

"What for?" The second shouted, "Why are you hitting me with a stone?" ”

"I didn't wow." The first one replied with a roar.

They quarreled a few words, but because they felt sleepy, they closed their eyes and fell asleep again. The little tailor repeated his trick, and chose the biggest stone and threw it at the first giant.

"That's not true!" The first giant roared. He leaped from the ground like mad and slammed his companion against the tree, causing it to shake. The second one did not give in, and the two fellows were so angry that they uprooted the big trees and threw them at each other, and finally they were both defeated, and they both fell to the ground and died.

The little tailor immediately jumped from the tree. "It's a blessing," he said, "that they didn't uproot the tree I just went up on." ”

With that, he drew his sword and stabbed each of the giants in the chest, and then he went up to the knights and said, "It's over, I've dealt with both giants, and it's been a thrilling encounter." When they saw that the situation was not good, they uprooted the big tree and put up a stubborn resistance, of course, in the face of a hero like myself who could kill seven at once, it was futile. ”

The knights rode into the forest and saw two giants lying in pools of blood, surrounded by uprooted trees, and believed the little tailor's words.

When he returned, the little tailor asked the king to give him the reward he had promised him, but the king regretted it, and thought twice as to how he could send the little tailor away.

"Before you get my daughter and half the kingdom," he said, "one more feat must be accomplished." In that forest, there's a very harmful unicorn that you have to catch. ”

"I'm not afraid of two giants, what's so scary about a unicorn." The little tailor boasted.

The little tailor set out for the forest with a rope and an axe, telling his men to wait outside the forest. He didn't have to look much before he saw the unicorn right in front of him and was heading straight at him.

He stood there motionless, waiting for the unicorn to approach, and then leaped swiftly behind the tree. The unicorn slammed into the tree like a madman, and poked its horn firmly into the trunk, and when it couldn't pull it out, it was caught.

"I'll catch you, man," said the little tailor, as he came out from behind the tree. He tied the unicorn around the neck with the rope, then split the trunk with his axe, loosened the horns, and led the unicorn back to the king.

But the king still refused to give him the reward promised to the little tailor, and put forward a third condition. He had to go back into the forest to catch a very harmful wild boar before he could get married.

"I'd be glad to go," replied the little tailor, "and it's not like a game to catch a wild boar." ”

As soon as the boar saw the little tailor, he foamed at the mouth and gritted his teeth, and rushed at him, trying to knock him to the ground. The brave little tailor jumped nimbly into a nearby chapel and, in the blink of an eye, jumped out of the window again. The boar chased into the church, and the little tailor ran a few steps behind the church, closed the door, and the menacing boar, so heavy and clumsy, could not jump out of the window, and was caught.

Then the brave little tailor went to the king and told him that he would like it or not, and that he must keep his promise this time and give him his daughter and half the kingdom.

Their wedding was solemn and there was little laughter. Still, the little tailor became king.

Soon after, the young queen heard her husband talking in her sleep one night. The little tailor shouted loudly in his dream: "Apprentice, hurry up and sew this vest and mend these trousers, or I will let your head taste the power of a ruler." In this way, she figured out the origin of her monarch and husband. The next morning she complained to her father that the husband whom the king had chosen for her was nothing more than a lowly tailor.

The king comforted her, saying, "Tonight, open the door of the dressing room, and I will keep watch outside, and when he is asleep, my attendant will creepily go in and tie him up, and put him on a ship, and send him to the ends of the earth." ”

The little tailor who became the king had a manservant, and when he heard what the old king had said, he reported the conspiracy to his master.

In the evening, the little tailor went to bed on time, as usual, and lay down beside his wife. Thinking he had fallen asleep, she got up from the bed, opened the door to the dressing room, and lay down on the bed again. The little tailor was just pretending to be asleep, and then he began to shout in a shrill voice: "Apprentice, sew this vest and mend this trouser again, or I will give your head a taste of the ruler." I killed seven at once, killed two giants, caught a unicorn, and caught a big boar, and I was afraid of any one in the dressing room? When they heard the little tailor's words, the men who were going to tie him up were so frightened that they fled. Since then, no one has dared to touch a single hair of him. In this way, the brave little tailor continued to be his king until his death.