The brave tailor

In one German city there lived the tailor. Called its Hans. It all the day sat on a table at a window, having drawn in feet, and sewed. Jackets sewed, trousers sewed, vests sewed. Here tailor Hans on a table somehow sits, sews and hears - shout in the street:

- Jam! Plam jam! To whom of jam?

"Jam! - the tailor has thought. - moreover plam. It is good".

He has thought and has cried in a window:

- The aunt, the aunt, go here! Give to me of jam.

He has bought this jam of a half-jar, cut off to itself a bread piece, has smeared with its jam and began to finish a vest.

"Here, - thinks, - I will finish a vest and jam we sing".

And in a room at tailor Hans many flies were - directly not to count how many. Perhaps one thousand, and can, and two thousand.

Have scented flies, that as jam smells, and have flown on bread.

- Flies, flies, - the tailor speaks to them, - who here called you? What for on my jam have flown?

And flies do not listen to it and eat jam. Here the tailor has become angry, took a rag yes as will strike a rag on flies - seven at once has killed.

- Here what I strong and brave! - tailor Hans has told. - about it all city should learn. Yes that a city! Let all world learns. I to myself Will hide a new belt and I will embroider on it with the big letters: "When malicious I happen, a seven I kill".

So it also has made. Has then put on itself a new belt, has put in a pocket a piece cottage cheese to cheese on road and has left the house.

At the gate he has seen the bird who has got confused in a bush. The bird fights, shouts, and cannot get out. Hans has caught a bird and has put it in the same pocket where at it cottage cheese cheese laid.

There was it, went and has come at last to a high mountain. Has got on top and sees - the giant sits on a grief and around looks.

- Hi, the friend, - speaks to it the tailor. - we Will go together with me on light to wander.

- What you to me the friend! - the giant answers. - you weak, small, and I big and strong. Leave, while it is whole.

- And it you saw? - Tailor Hans speaks and shows to a giant the belt.

And on a belt at Hans it is embroidered by large letters: "When malicious I happen, a seven I kill".

The giant has read and has thought: "Who knows it - can, it indeed the strong person. It is necessary to test it".

Took the giant in hands a stone and so has strong compressed it, that from a stone water has begun to flow.

- And now you try to make it, - the giant has told.

- Only and all? - The tailor speaks. - well, for me this business empty.

It on the sly from a pocket has taken out a piece of cottage cheese cheese and has squeezed in a fist. From a fist water and has poured down on the earth.

The giant to such force was surprised, but has decided to test Hans once again. Has lifted from the earth a stone and has thrown it in the sky. So has far thrown, that a stone and it became visible not.

- Well, - he speaks to the tailor, - try also you so.

- Highly you throw, - the tailor has told. - and nevertheless your stone has fallen to the earth. Here I will throw, so is direct on the sky a stone I will throw.

He has put a hand in a pocket, has snatched out a bird and has thrown it upwards. The bird has risen highly-highly in the sky and has departed.

- What, the friend, what? - Tailor Hans asks.

- Not bad, - the giant speaks. - and here we will look now, whether you can a tree on shoulders take down?

It has brought the tailor to the big cut down oak and speaks:

- If you such strong so help me to take out this tree from wood.

- All right, - the tailor has answered, and about itself has thought: "I am weak, yes is clever, and you are silly, yes is strong. I always to deceive you I will manage".

Also speaks to a giant:

- You to itself shoulders only with a trunk charge, and I will incur all branches and boughs. After all they will be heavier.

And have made. The giant has shouldered to itself a trunk and has incurred. And the tailor has jumped on a branch and has walked all on it. The giant on itself drags all tree, moreover and the tailor in addition. And look back cannot back - to it branches stir. Tailor Hans astride a branch goes and a song sings:

- As our children have gone

From gate on a kitchen garden...

Long the giant dragged a tree, at last has got tired and speaks:

- Listen, the tailor, I now on the earth will dump a tree. I have got tired very much. Here the tailor has come off a branch and has grasped a tree both hands as though it all time went behind a giant.

- Эх you! - the tailor to a giant has told. - such big, and forces to see, you have not enough.

They have left a tree and have gone further. Went, went and have come at last to a cave. There at a fire five giants sat, and at everyone in hands was on a fried ram.

- Here, - the giant which has resulted Hans speaks, - here we and live. Get on this bed, lay down and have a rest.

The tailor has looked at a bed and has thought: "Well, this bed not on me. It is too great".

He has thought so, has found in a cave a corner more darkly and has laid down to sleep. And at night the giant has woken up, took the big scrap iron and has struck with scope on a bed.

- Well, - the giant to the companions has told, - now I have got rid of this athlete.

There were in the morning all six giants and trees have gone to wood to cut. And the tailor too has risen, has washed, has brushed the hair and has followed them trace.

Giants in Hans's wood have seen and have got a fright. "Well, - think, - if we even a breakage iron have not killed him, so it will interrupt all of us now".

Also giants every which way have run up.

And the tailor has laughed over them and has gone where eyes look.

There was it, went and has come at last to a fencing of a royal palace. There at gate has laid down on a green grass and has strong fallen asleep.

For now he slept, its royal servants have seen, have bent over it and have read at it on a belt an inscription: "When malicious I happen, a seven I kill".

- Here so the athlete to us has come! - they have told. - it is necessary to the king to report on it.

Royal servants to the king have run and speak:

- The athlete lays at gate of your palace. To take good it on service. If war is, it is useful to us.

The king was delighted.

- Truly, - speaks, - call him here.

The tailor has slept, has wiped eyes and has gone to serve the king.

It serves put, another serves. Royal soldiers each other also began to speak:

- That to us good to wait from this athlete? After all it, when malicious happens, a seven kills. So at it and on a belt it is written.

They have gone to the king and speak:

- We do not wish to serve with it together. It will interrupt all of us, if becomes angry. Release us from service.

And the king already and itself has regretted, that took such athlete to itself on service. "And suddenly, - he thought, - this athlete and really will become angry, my soldiers will interrupt, me will cut also itself on my place will sit down?. As though of it to get rid?"

He has called tailor Hans and speaks:

- In my kingdom in dense wood there live two robbers, and both of them such athletes, that anybody to them close to approach does not dare. I order to you to find them and to overcome. And for the aid to you I give one hundred horsemen.

- All right, - the tailor has told. - I when malicious I happen, kill a seven. And from two times - бойниками I and joking will consult.

Also it has gone to wood. And hundred royal horsemen behind it trace have jumped.

On a wood edge the tailor to horsemen has turned back and speaks:

- You, horsemen, here wait, and I with robbers herself will consult.

Has entered into a thicket and began to look back around.

Sees - two robbers and so snore in a dream lay under the big tree, that over them branches wave. The tailor, not long thinking, has typed full pockets of stones, has climbed on a tree and began to throw from above stones in one robber. That in a breast will get to it, to a forehead. And the robber snores also hears nothing. And suddenly one stone has knocked the robber on a nose. The robber has woken up and pushes the companion sideways:

- You of that fight?

- Yes that you! - other robber speaks. - I do not beat you. To you it, is visible, has dreamt.

And again both of them have fallen asleep.

Here the tailor has started to throw stones in other robber.

That too has woken up and began to shout at a companion:

- You of that in me stones throw it? Has become crazy?

Yes as will strike the friend on a forehead!

And they be it.

Also they began to fight stones, sticks and fists. And until then fought, while each other to death have not killed.

Then the tailor has come off a tree, left on an edge of wood and speaks to horsemen:

- It's done, both are killed. Well and malicious these robbers! And they in me threw stones, and fists at me raised, yes that it with me to do? After all I, when malicious happen, a seven I kill!

Royal horsemen in wood have driven and see: truly, two robbers lay on the earth. Lay and do not move - both are killed.

Tailor Hans has returned to a palace to the king.

And the king artful was. He has listened to Hans and thinks: "it is fine, with robbers you have consulted, and here now I to you will set such problem, that you in live will not remain with me".

- Listen, - the king, - podi you again in wood speaks now to Hans, catch a furious animal-unicorn.

- All right, - tailor Hans speaks, is I can. After all I, when malicious happen, a seven I kill. So with one unicorn I am live I will consult.

Took it with itself(himself) an axe and a cord and has again gone to wood.

Not for long it was necessary to tailor Hans to search for a unicorn - the animal itself to it has towards jumped out, terrible, a wool on end, a horn sharp, as a sword.

The unicorn has rushed on the tailor and wanted was to pierce its horn, yes the tailor for a thick tree has hidden. The unicorn with running start and has thrust the horn in a tree. Has rushed back, and cannot pull out.

- Here now you from me will not leave! - the tailor has told, has thrown to a unicorn over a neck a cord, has cut down an axe its horn from a tree and has led an animal on a cord to the king.

Has resulted a unicorn directly in a royal palace.

And the unicorn as soon as has seen the king in a gold crown and a red cloak, has breathed heavily, has begun to wheeze. Eyes at it were poured by blood, a wool on end, a horn as the sword, sticks out. The king was frightened and has rushed to run. And all its soldiers behind it. The king - so far has far escaped, that are expensive has not found back.

And the tailor began itself to live easy yes to live, jackets, trousers and vests to sew. It on a wall has hung up a belt and more neither giants, nor robbers, unicorns on the century did not see.