Chapter 96 95. Water in a small basket

Once upon a time there was a widow who married a widower, and they each had a daughter.A mother is very fond of her own daughter and not of another girl.She made her own daughter fetch water in a bucket, and the other girl a basket.The water ran out of the basket, so the stepmother beat the poor girl every day. One day, when the girl went to the river to fetch water, the basket floated away.She started running after her, and asked everyone, "See my little basket floating by here?" They all answered, "Keep going downstream and you'll find it." The girl continued to walk down, and she saw an old lady sitting on a stone in the middle of the river catching fleas, so she asked the old woman, "Have you seen my little basket?"

"Come here," said the old woman to her, "I found your basket for you. Now, I want you to do me a favor and see what is biting my back. What's in it?" The girl killed all the fleas off her back, but in order not to displease the old woman, she replied, "Pearls and precious stones." "You will have pearls and precious stones too," said the old woman.The fleas were caught, and the old woman said to the girl, "Follow me." The old woman took her to her house, where there was a lot of rubbish. "Help me, kind boy: make me a bed. What do you see on my bed?" It was a bed that walked by itself, and it was full of bugs, but in order not to upset the old woman, "It's roses and jasmine," said the girl.

"You'll have roses and jasmine too. Now, please, do me one more time and clean up the house. What did you find?" The girl replied, "Ruby and cherubs." "You'll have rubies and cherubs too." Then the old woman opened a wardrobe with all kinds of clothes in it.She said to the girl, "Do you want a silk dress or a tulle dress?" The girl replied: "You know I'm a poor boy, give me a tulle dress." "But I want to give you a silk weaving." He gave the girl a very beautiful silk weaving dress.The old woman took out another jewelry box and said to her, "Do you want the gold or the coral?" The girl said, "Give me the coral."

"But I want to give you gold." He put on a gold necklace for her. "Do you want crystal earrings or diamond earrings?" "Crystal earrings." "But I will give you diamonds." He put diamond earrings on her.Then the old woman said, "May you be beautiful. Your hair shall be golden, and when you comb it, it shall drop jasmine and roses from one side, and pearls and rubies from the other. Now go home Don't turn your head when you hear a donkey braying, but turn your head when you hear a rooster crowing." The girl walked home. When the donkey crowed, she didn't look back. When the rooster crowed, she turned her head, and a star was dotted on her forehead.

The stepmother asked her, "Who gave you all these things?" "Mom, it was given to me by an old lady who found the basket for me and I caught fleas for her." "Now I'm beginning to like you," said the stepmother, "from now on, you will carry water in a bucket, and your sister will carry a basket." So she whispered to her daughter, "Take this basket and carry water, Let it float away, and you follow: you may find, too, what your sister got." The younger sister went out, threw the little basket into the water, and followed.Downstream, she also spotted the old woman, and asked her, "Did you see my little basket floating by?"

"Come here, I'm here. Come and see what's biting my back." The girl began to crush the little bugs. "What's on my back?" She replied, "Fleas and scabies." "Then you'll have fleas and scabies too." The old woman took her to make the bed. "What did you find?" "Bugs and lice." "You'll also have bedbugs and lice." The old woman asked her to clean the room again. "What did you see? "Disgusting trash." "You'll also have disgusting trash." Next, the old lady asked the girl whether she wanted coarse cloth or silk. "I want to weave clothes in silk."

"But I will give you the sackcloth." "Would you like a pearl necklace or a string necklace?" "Pearl's!" "But I'll give you the string necklace." "Do you want gold earrings or brass earrings?" "Gold earrings!" "But I'll give you copper. Go home now. Look back when the donkey crows, and don't look back when the rooster crows." The girl was walking home, and when she heard the braying of the donkey, she turned her head, and a donkey's tail grew out of her forehead.Cutting it off won't help either, because it will still grow.So the girl cried out:

"Mother, ding dong, ding dong, The more you chop, the longer it will be. " The king's son proposed to the girl with the star on her forehead.On the day he was going to meet her in a car, the stepmother said to her: "Since you are going to marry the king's son, help me do something before leaving, wash this big wooden barrel. You get into the barrel, I will Come help me now." While the girl was in the bucket, the stepmother went to fetch a large pot of boiling water, and tried to pour it into the bucket and scald her to death.Then let his ugly daughter wear a wedding dress and a veil to appear in front of the prince, so that the prince can marry her.But when she went to get the pot of water on the stove, her daughter passed the bucket. "What are you doing in there?" she asked her sister.

"I'm inside because I'm going to marry the king's son." "Let me in so she'll marry me." The beautiful girl is always easy-going, she walked out of the barrel and let the ugly girl in.Mother came with boiling water, and she poured it into the bucket.She thought she had killed her stepdaughter, but when she found out it was her daughter, she started crying and making a scene.When the husband came, the girl told him everything, and the father beat the stepmother severely. The beautiful girl married the prince and lived a happy life. The leaves are wide, the roads are narrow,

Tell your story, mine is done. (Marche region)