The Disobedient Kids and Other Czecho-Slovak Fairy Tales

By Božena Němcová

Czech Writer Božena Němcová offers her collection of Czecho-Slovak Fairy Tales. The tales were written at the time of the latter period of the Czech National Revival, a time when national sentiment favored the revival of the Czech language, culture and national identity. Some of the titles include: 'The Little Cock and the Little Hen', 'Castle Bousin' and 'The Magician and the Cat'.

• Language: English
• Publisher: DigiCat
• Release date: Sep 15, 2022
• ISBN: 8596547318163

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Božena Němcová

The Disobedient Kids and Other Czecho-Slovak Fairy Tales

EAN 8596547318163

DigiCat, 2022

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Table of Contents

A Tale Without End.

The Little Cock and the Little Hen.

The Disobedient Kids.

The Little Stars of Gold.

Castle Bousin.

Smolineck.

The House of Candy.

The Frog and Belinka.

A Story about Palecek, Little Thumb.

The Magician, the Cat and the Stove.

A Tale Without End.

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Once upon a time, about sun set, a little shepherd lad was pasturing his sheep, near a wide brook. Of course the boy was in a great hurry to get home, where he knew a good supper was waiting for him.

​Now the wide brook had only a narrow plank for a bridge, so that the sheep were obliged to cross over, in a line, one at a time. Now children, let us wait till the boy has driven all his sheep over the bridge, then I will finish my story.

The Little Cock and the Little Hen.

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Once upon a time, a little cock and a little hen went to the Giant Mountains to hunt for strawberries. On the way, they agreed to divide equally all the fruit they found. The little hen was the first to find a big berry and calling the little cock according to their agreement, each ate his half.

Then the little cock found a strawberry, not quite so luscious as the first, but most tempting, in fact so much so, that he said nothing about it to his little partner. Instead, he tried to gobble it down as fast as he could. But it stuck in his throat. He tried every means to get that berry down. He stretched out his neck, moved his head backwards and forwards, jumped up and dawn, shook himself, in fact tried every thing to make that berry go down. But there it stuck! He then began to show signs of great distress.