格林童话集：Odds And Ends

There was once on a time a maiden who was pretty, but

idle and negligent.When she had to spin she was so out

of temper that if there was a little knot in the flax, she

at once pulled out a whole heap of it, and strewed it about

on the ground beside her.Now she had a servant who was

industrious, and gathered together the bits of flax which

were thrown away, cleaned them, span them fine, and had a

beautiful gown made out of them for herself.A young man

had wooed the lazy girl, and the wedding was to take place.

On the eve of the wedding, the industrious one was dancing

merrily about in her pretty dress, and the bride said,-

"Ah, how that girl does jump about, dressed in my odds and ends."

The bridegroom heard that, and asked the bride what she meant

by it?Then she told him that the girl was wearing a dress make

of the flax which she had thrown away.When the bridegroom

heard that, and saw how idle she was, and how industrious the

poor girl was, he gave her up and went to the other, and chose

her as his wife.

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