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The wolf, in the meantime, had pushed and pulled and bitten at the stone, and had worked so long that he had set his feet at liberty and had drawn them once more out of the cleft. Full of anger and rage he hurried after the musician and wanted to tear him to pieces. When the fox saw him running, he began to lament, and cried with all his might, "Brother wolf, come to my help, the musician has betrayed me!" The wolf drew down the little tree, bit the cord in two, and freed the fox, who went with him to take revenge on the musician. They found the tied-up hare, whom likewise they delivered, and then they all sought the enemy together.

The musician had once more played his fiddle as he went on his way, and this time he had been more fortunate. The sound reached the ears of a poor wood-cutter, who instantly, whether he would or no, gave up his work and came with his hatchet under his arm to listen to the music. "At last comes the right companion," said the musician, "for I was seeking a human being, and no wild beast." And he began and played so beautifully and delightfully that the poor man stood there as if bewitched, and his heart leaped with gladness. And as he thus stood, the wolf, the fox, and the hare came up, and he saw well that they had some evil design. So he raised his glittering axe and placed himself before the musician, as if to say, "Whoso wishes to touch him let him beware, for he will have to do with me!" Then the beasts were terrified and ran back into the forest. The musician, however, played once more to the man out of gratitude, and then went onwards.

再说狼被卡住后，又是拉自己的脚，又是咬树干，还跳起来用后脚抓石头。 花了好些时间，费了好大的劲，最后才将脚抽出来。 它愤恨到了极点，说道："我一定要赶上那卑鄙的乐师，把他撕成碎片。"说完追了上去。 狐狸看见狼从身边跑过，叫道："哎！狼兄，请把我放下来，那乐师用诡计把我弄成了这个样子。"于是狼在榛树下面忙乎起来，咬断了两棵树后，它俩又一起去找那位乐师。 当它们来到野兔旁边时，野兔也叫喊要它们帮忙。 它们把它解脱后，一起向它们的仇人追去。
此时，乐师为了再找一个伙伴，他又拉起了小提琴，一个贫穷的樵夫听到他这欢快的琴声，兴奋不已 ，禁不住将斧头夹在胳膊下寻声而来。 这回，乐师看见是一个人来了，非常高兴，对这位樵夫非常有礼貌，没有用诡计作弄他，而且拉起了他最善长的曲调，直听得那樵夫如醉如痴，心中洋溢着欢喜。 就在樵夫站在旁边凝神静听时，他看到狼、狐狸和野兔走上前来。 从它们面部狂怒的表情，樵夫知道它们来这儿是不怀好意的，所以他站在乐师的前面，端起斧子，就像是在说："有我这把斧子在，谁也别想伤害乐师！"这些野兽看到这情形，吓得急忙跑回了森林。 乐师此刻又为樵夫拉起他最拿手的曲子，以答谢他为自己鼎力相助，赶走了野兽。 拉完后他与樵夫话别，继续他的漫游。

Again he said to himself, "Time is beginning to pass heavily with me here in the forest, I will fetch hither another companion," so he took his fiddle, and the sound echoed through the forest. Then a little hare came springing towards him. "Why, a hare is coming," said the musician, "I do not want him." - "Ah, dear musician," said the hare, "how beautifully thou dost fiddle; I too, should like to learn that." - "That is soon learnt," said the musician, "thou hast only to do everything that I bid thee." - "Oh, musician," replied the little hare, "I will obey thee as a scholar obeys his master." They went a part of the way together until they came to an open space in the forest, where stood an aspen tree. The musician tied a long string round the little hare's neck, the other end of which he fastened to the tree. "Now briskly, little hare, run twenty times round the tree!" cried the musician, and the little hare obeyed, and when it had run round twenty times, it had twisted the string twenty times round the trunk of the tree, and the little hare was caught, and let it pull and tug as it liked, it only made the string cut into its tender neck. "Wait there till I come back," said the musician, and went onwards.

可是，不久他又自言自语地说："又沉闷起来了，我得找一个伙伴。"于是，他拉起了小提琴，琴声飘扬，跑来了一只野兔。 乐师说道："哎呀，是只野兔。"野兔对他说："您不愧是一个优秀的琴师。您的琴真是拉绝了。您教我好吗？"乐师回答说："好吧，如果你按我的指挥来做，我就教你。"野兔马上说道："好的，我会是一个好学生。"然后他们一起走了很长一段时间。 当来到森林里一片开阔地带时，乐师用一根绳子在野兔的脖子上系好，将绳子的另一头拴在一棵树上，说道："好了，灵巧的野兔，跳起来，迅速地绕树跑二十圈。"愚蠢的野兔按乐师的吩咐跑了起来。 当兔子围着树跑完二十圈后，它也将系着它的绳子在树干上绕了二十圈，像一个被套在树上的囚犯。 跑完后，野兔兴致勃勃地又拉又扯，但只要一拉，绳子将它的脖子勒得更紧。 这时乐师说道："现在等在这儿，直到我回来。"说完就走了。

After a while he again said to himself, "Time is beginning to pass heavily with me here in the forest, I will fetch hither another companion," and took his fiddle and again played in the forest. It was not long before a fox came creeping through the trees towards him. "Ah, there's a fox coming!" said the musician. "I have no desire for him." The fox came up to him and said, "Oh, dear musician, how beautifully thou dost play! I should like to learn that too." - "That is soon learnt," said the musician. "Thou hast only to do everything that I bid thee." - "Oh, musician," then said the fox, "I will obey thee as a scholar obeys his master." - "Follow me," said the musician; and when they had walked a part of the way, they came to a footpath, with high bushes on both sides of it. There the musician stood still, and from one side bent a young hazel-bush down to the ground, and put his foot on the top of it, then he bent down a young tree from the other side as well, and said, "Now little fox, if thou wilt learn something, give me thy left front paw." The fox obeyed, and the musician fastened his paw to the left bough. "Little fox," said he, "now reach me thy right paw" and he tied it to the right bough. When he had examined whether they were firm enough, he let go, and the bushes sprang up again, and jerked up the little fox, so that it hung struggling in the air. "Wait there till I come back again," said the musician, and went his way.

过了一会儿，他又自言自语地说："一个人太沉闷了，我得再找一个伙伴来。"于是，他又拉起了小提琴，悠扬的提琴声再次在森林里传了开去。 接着一只狐狸慢慢地来到了他身边 ，他说道："哎呀！来了一只狐狸。"狐狸上前说道："您真是一个一流的乐师，提琴拉的多棒啊！我一定要向您学习拉提琴。"乐师说："你很快就可以学会，只要你按照我教你的去做就成。"狐狸马上应声道："好的，我会按您的吩咐去做的。"他们一起上路了。 当他们来到一条窄窄的小路时，乐师望了望小路两旁高高的树丛，然后将小路一边的一棵矮壮的榛树干弯下靠近路面，用脚踩住树尖，又弯下小路另一边的一棵榛树对狐狸说："机灵的狐狸，如果你想学拉小提琴，就把你的左前爪让我握住。"狐狸马上伸出了左前爪，乐师将狐狸爪子绑到一棵榛树的树梢。 "现在把你的右前爪伸过来给我。"狐狸又按乐师的吩咐做了，他将这只爪子绑在了另一棵榛树的树梢，随后放开自己的脚，两边的榛树"哗啦"向上弹了起来，狐狸也跟着被弹起，四脚张开被挂了起来，来回在空中不停地摇晃着。 乐师说道："现在你好好地呆在这儿，等着我回来。"说完，又迈着悠闲的步子扬长而去。

There was once a wonderful musician, who went quite alone through a forest and thought of all manner of things, and when nothing was left for him to think about, he said to himself, "Time is beginning to pass heavily with me here in the forest, I will fetch hither a good companion for myself." Then he took his fiddle from his back, and played so that it echoed through the trees. It was not long before a wolf came trotting through the thicket towards him. "Ah, here is a wolf coming! I have no desire for him!" said the musician; but the wolf came nearer and said to him, "Ah, dear musician, how beautifully thou dost play. I should like to learn that, too." - "It is soon learnt," the musician replied, "thou hast only to do all that I bid thee." - "Oh, musician," said the wolf, "I will obey thee as a scholar obeys his master." The musician bade him follow, and when they had gone part of the way together, they came to an old oak-tree which was hollow inside, and cleft in the middle. "Look," said the musician, "if thou wilt learn to fiddle, put thy fore paws into this crevice." The wolf obeyed, but the musician quickly picked up a stone and with one blow wedged his two paws so fast that he was forced to stay there like a prisoner. "Stay there until I come back again," said the musician, and went his way.

有一个技艺一流的乐师，他的小提琴演奏令人赏心悦耳，激动不已。 一次，他怀着愉快的心情到森林里去漫游，走了一段路，觉得一个人太无聊，就自言自语地说："一个人太沉闷了，我得找一个伙伴来。"于是，他拿起小提琴拉了起来。
顷刻间，森林里回荡起了他那美妙的乐声。
一只狼出现了，乐师看到后说道："哎呀！是一只狼来看我了。"狼走到他面前说："您的琴拉得太动听了！但愿您能教教我。"乐师说："这很容易，只要你按我的吩咐做就行了。"狼回答说："好的，我将是一个非常善于用功的学生。"这样，他们一起走上了小路，最后来到了一棵大树前。 这是一棵里面空了的老栎树，树干中间裂了一条大缝。 乐师对狼说："看这儿，如果你想学拉小提琴，就把你的前脚伸进这条裂缝去。"狼按照他说的做了，乐师拾起一块大石头把它的两只前脚牢牢地卡在了裂缝里，就像一个被铐着的囚犯。 "现在，你给我乖乖地在这儿等着我回来。"乐师说完，迈着悠闲的步子扬长而去。

When the King heard of the peasant's words he fell into a passion, and commanded the Jew to go and bring the offender to him. The Jew ran to the peasant, "You are to go at once to the lord King in the very clothes you have on." - "I know what's right better than that," answered the peasant, "I shall have a new coat made first. Dost thou think that a man with so much money in his pocket is to go there in his ragged old coat?" The Jew, as he saw that the peasant would not stir without another coat, and as he feared that if the King's anger cooled, he himself would lose his reward, and the peasant his punishment, said, "I will out of pure friendship lend thee a coat for the short time. What will people not do for love!" The peasant was contented with this, put the Jew's coat on, and went off with him. 

The King reproached the countryman because of the evil speaking of which the Jew had informed him. "Ah," said the peasant, "what a Jew says is always false -- no true word ever comes out of his mouth! That rascal there is capable of maintaining that I have his coat on."

"What is that?" shrieked the Jew. "Is the coat not mine? Have I not lent it to thee out of pure friendship, in order that thou might appear before the lord King?" When the King heard that, he said, "The Jew has assuredly deceived one or the other of us, either myself or the peasant," and again he ordered something to be counted out to him in hard thalers. The peasant, however, went home in the good coat, with the good money in his pocket, and said to himself, "This time I have hit it!"

国王听了农夫说过的话大发雷霆，命令犹太人去把农夫抓来。 犹太人跑到农夫那里，对他说："国王让你赶紧去见他。""我知道怎么去更好，"农夫回答，"我要先请裁缝给我做件新外套。你认为口袋里装着这么多钱的人能穿着这身旧衣服去见国王吗？"犹太人看到农夫怎么也不愿意穿着旧衣服去见国王，怕时间一长国王的怒火平息了，自己会得不到奖赏，农夫也会免遭惩罚，便对他说："纯粹是出于友谊，我暂时把我的外套借给你。为了友爱，人可是什么事情都肯做的呀！"农夫对这种安排很满意，便穿上犹太人的外套，和他一起去见国王。
国王责问农夫为什么要说犹太人所告发的那些坏话。
"啊，"农夫说，"犹太人什么时候说过真话呢？狗嘴里吐不出象牙来！这混蛋大概还要说我身上的外套是他的呢。"
"你说什么？"犹太人嚷道，"难道那外套不是我的吗？难道我没有出于友谊把它借给你，好让你来见国王吗？"国王听到这里便说："这个犹太人肯定骗了人，不是骗了我就是骗了农夫，"然后又命令人再赏给他一些硬板子。 农夫穿着漂亮的外套，口袋里装着鼓鼓的钱，边往家走边想："这次的交易做成功了！"

When the peasant went out by the gate, the sentry said, "Thou hast made the King's daughter laugh, so thou wilt certainly receive something good." - "Yes, that is what I think," answered the peasant; "five hundred are to be counted out to me." - "Hark thee," said the soldier, "give me some of it. What canst thou do with all that money?" - "As it is thou," said the peasant, "thou shalt have two hundred; present thyself in three days' time before the King, and let it be paid to thee." A Jew, who was standing by and had heard the conversation, ran after the peasant, held him by the coat, and said, "Oh, wonder! what a luck-child thou art! I will change it for thee, I will change it for thee into small coins, what dost thou want with the great thalers?" - "Jew," said the countryman, "three hundred canst thou still have; give it to me at once in coin, in three days from this, thou wilt be paid for it by the King." The Jew was delighted with the profit, and brought the sum in bad groschen, three of which were worth two good ones. After three days had passed, according to the King's command, the peasant went before the King. "Pull his coat off," said the latter, "and he shall have his five hundred." - "Ah!" said the peasant, "they no longer belong to me; I presented two hundred of them to the sentinel, and three hundred the Jew has changed for me, so by right nothing at all belongs to me." In the meantime the soldier and the Jew entered and claimed what they had gained from the peasant, and they received the blows strictly counted out. The soldier bore it patiently and knew already how it tasted, but the Jew said sorrowfully, "Alas, alas, are these the heavy thalers?" The King could not help laughing at the peasant, and as all his anger was gone, he said, "As thou hast already lost thy reward before it fell to thy lot, I will give thee something in the place of it. Go into my treasure chamber and get some money for thyself, as much as thou wilt." The peasant did not need to be told twice, and stuffed into his big pockets whatsoever would go in. Afterwards he went to an inn and counted out his money. The Jew had crept after him and heard how he muttered to himself, "That rogue of a King has cheated me after all, why could he not have given me the money himself, and then I should have known what I had? How can I tell now if what I have had the luck to put in my pockets is right or not?" - "Good heavens!" said the Jew to himself, "that man is speaking disrespectfully of our lord the King, I will run and inform, and then I shall get a reward, and he will be punished as well." 

农夫从宫门出来时，卫兵问他："你把公主逗笑了，肯定得到什么奖赏了吧？""我想是吧，"农夫说，"国王要给我整整五百块银元呢。""你听我说，"卫兵说，"你要那么多钱干什么？分一点给我吧！""既然是你嘛，"农夫说，"我就给你两百块吧。你三天后去见国王，让他把钱付给你好了。"站在旁边的一位犹太人听到了他们的谈话，赶紧追上农夫，拽着他的外衣说："我的天哪，你的运气真好啊！你要那些大银元做什么？把它们换给我吧，我给你换成小钱。""犹太人，"农夫说，"你还有三百块银元好拿，赶紧把小钱给我吧。三天后让国王把钱给你好了。"犹太人很高兴自己占到了便宜，给农夫拿来了一些坏铜钱。 这种坏铜钱三枚只能值两枚。 三天过去了，农夫按国王的吩咐，来到了国王的面前。国王突然说道："脱掉他的外衣，给他五百板子。""嗨，"农夫说道，"这五百已经不属于我了。我把其中的两百送给了卫兵，把另外的三百换给了犹太人，所以它们根本不属于我。"就在这时，卫兵和犹太人进来向国王要钱，结果分别如数挨了板子。卫兵因为尝过板子的滋味，所以挺了过来；犹太人却伤心地说："天哪，天哪，这就是那些沉重的银元吗？"国王忍不住对农夫笑了，怒气也消失了。他说："既然你在得到给你的奖赏之前就已经失去了，我愿意给你一些补偿。你到我的宝库去取一些钱吧！愿意拿多少就拿多少。"这句话农夫一听就懂，把他的大口袋装得满满的，然后他走进一家酒店，数着他的钱。犹太人悄悄跟在他的后面，听见他在低声嘀咕："那个混蛋国王到底还是把我给骗了！他干吗不自己把钱给我呢？这样我就能知道他究竟给了我多少。他现在让我自己把钱装进口袋，我怎么知道有多少钱呢？""我的天哪，"犹太人心中想道，"这个家伙居然在说国王大人的坏话。我要跑去告诉国王，这样我就能得到奖赏，而这家伙就会受到惩罚。"

When three days had passed, the countryman thought, "To-night my money will be in my pocket," and was quite delighted. But no one would come and pay it. "There is no trusting any one now," said he; and at last he lost patience, and went into the town to the butcher and demanded his money. The butcher thought it was a joke, but the peasant said, "Jesting apart, I will have my money! Did not the great dog bring you the whole of the slaughtered cow three days ago?" Then the butcher grew angry, snatched a broomstick and drove him out. "Wait a while," said the peasant, "there is still some justice in the world!" and went to the royal palace and begged for an audience. He was led before the King, who sat there with his daughter, and asked him what injury he had suffered. "Alas!" said he, "the frogs and the dogs have taken from me what is mine, and the butcher has paid me for it with the stick," and he related at full length all that had happened. Thereupon the King's daughter began to laugh heartily, and the King said to him, "I cannot give you justice in this, but you shall have my daughter to wife for it, -- in her whole life she has never yet laughed as she has just done at thee, and I have promised her to him who could make her laugh. Thou mayst thank God for thy good fortune!"

"Oh," answered the peasant, "I will not have her, I have a wife already, and she is one too many for me; when I go home, it is just as bad as if I had a wife standing in every corner." Then the King grew angry, and said, "Thou art a boor." - "Ah, Lord King," replied the peasant, "what can you expect from an ox, but beef?" - "Stop," answered the King, "thou shalt have another reward. Be off now, but come back in three days, and then thou shalt have five hundred counted out in full." 

三天过去了，农夫想："今晚我的钱就可以装在我的口袋里了。"想到这里，他非常高兴。 然而谁也没有来给他还钱。 "这年月谁也不能相信！"他说。 到最后他终于不耐烦了，只好进城找屠夫要钱。 屠夫以为他是在开玩笑，可是农夫说："谁和你开玩笑？我要我的钱！难道你的那条大狼犬三天前没有把一整头牛的肉给你送来吗？"屠夫这次真的发火了，一把抓起扫帚把农夫赶了出去。 "你等着，"农夫说，"这世界上还有公道呢！"他说着就跑到王宫去喊冤，结果被带去见国王。国王正和公主坐在一起，他问农夫有什么冤屈。 "天哪！"他说，"青蛙和狗把我的钱拿走了，屠夫不但不认账，还用扫帚打我。"接着，他把事情从头至尾讲了一遍，逗得公主开心地哈哈大笑。国王对他说："这件事情我无法为你主持公道，不过我可以把我女儿嫁给你。她一辈子还从来没有像笑你那样大笑过；我许过愿，要把她嫁给能使她发笑的人。你能交上这样的好运，真得感谢上帝！"
"哦，"农夫回答，"我才不想娶你女儿呢。我已经有了一个老婆，而这个老婆我都嫌多。每次我回到家里，总觉得到处都有她似的。"国王一听就生了气，说："你真是个蠢货！""嗨，国王老爷，"农夫说，"除了牛肉，你还能指望从牛身上得到什么呢？""等等，"国王说，"我另外给你一样奖赏吧。你现在去吧，过三天再回来。我要给你整整五百块银元。"

After a while he bought another cow, which he killed, and he made the calculation that if he sold the meat well he might gain as much as the two cows were worth, and have the skin into the bargain. When therefore he got to the town with the meat, a great troop of dogs were gathered together in front of the gate, with a large greyhound at the head of them, which jumped at the meat, snuffed at it, and barked, "Wow, wow, wow." As there was no stopping him, the peasant said to him, "Yes, yes, I know quite well that thou art saying, 'wow, wow, wow,' because thou wantest some of the meat; but I should fare badly if I were to give it to thee." The dog, however, answered nothing but "wow, wow." - "Wilt thou promise not to devour it all then, and wilt thou go bail for thy companions?" - "Wow, wow, wow," said the dog. "Well, if thou insistest on it, I will leave it for thee; I know thee well, and know who is thy master; but this I tell thee, I must have my money in three days or else it will go ill with thee; thou must just bring it out to me." Thereupon he unloaded the meat and turned back again, the dogs fell upon it and loudly barked, "wow, wow."

The countryman, who heard them from afar, said to himself, "Hark, now they all want some, but the big one is responsible to me for it."

过了一阵子，农夫又买了一头牛，把它宰了。 他一算计，发现自己不仅可以挣回两头牛的钱，而且还白得一张牛皮。 于是，他把肉运到了城里；可是城门口有一大群狗，领头的是一只大狼犬。 大狼犬围着牛肉跳来跳去，一面闻一面"汪，汪，汪"地叫着。农夫看到自己怎么也制止不了它，便对它说："是的，是的，我知道你那'汪，汪，汪'的意思。你是想吃点肉，可要是我们肉给了你，我自己就倒霉了！"但是狼犬只是回答"汪，汪，汪"。 "那么你愿不愿意答应不把肉全吃完，并且愿意为其他狗作担保呢？""汪，汪，汪，"狼犬叫着。 "好吧，要是你硬要这么做，我就把肉都留在这里。我认识你，也知道你在谁家当差。我把话说在头里，你必须在三天内把钱还给我，不然我叫你好看！你可以把钱送到我家去。"说着，农夫就把肉卸在地上，转身回家去了。那群狗一下子扑到牛肉上，大声叫着："汪，汪，汪！"
农夫在远处听到它们的叫声，自言自语地说："听啊，它们现在都想吃一点，但账得由那头大狼犬付。"

There was once a peasant who had driven his cow to the fair, and sold her for seven thalers. On the way home he had to pass a pond, and already from afar he heard the frogs crying, "Aik, aik, aik, aik." - "Well," said he to himself, "they are talking without rhyme or reason, it is seven that I have received, not eight." When he got to the water, he cried to them, "Stupid animals that you are! Don't you know better than that? It is seven thalers and not eight." The frogs, however, stood to their, "aik aik, aik, aik." - "Come, then, if you won't believe it, I can count it out to you." And he took his money out of his pocket and counted out the seven thalers, always reckoning four and twenty groschen to a thaler. The frogs, however, paid no attention to his reckoning, but still cried, "aik, aik, aik, aik." - "What," cried the peasant, quite angry, "since you are determined to know better than I, count it yourselves," and threw all the money into the water to them. He stood still and wanted to wait until they were done and had brought him his own again, but the frogs maintained their opinion and cried continually, "aik, aik, aik, aik," and besides that, did not throw the money out again. He still waited a long while until evening came on and he was forced to go home. Then he abused the frogs and cried, "You water-splashers, you thick-heads, you goggle-eyes, you have great mouths and can screech till you hurt one's ears, but you cannot count seven thalers! Do you think I'm going to stand here till you get done?" And with that he went away, but the frogs still cried, "aik, aik, aik, aik," after him till he went home quite angry. 

从前有个农夫，赶着一头母牛去集市出售，结果卖了七个银币。 在回家的路上，他经过一个池塘，远远地就听到青蛙们在叫："呱--呱--呱--呱--。""嘿，"农夫自言自语地说，"你们真是在胡说八道。我只卖了七个银币，不是八个。"他走到池塘边，冲着青蛙喊道："你们这些愚蠢的东西！难道你们还没有搞清楚吗？是七个银币，不是八个！"可是青蛙还在那里叫着："呱，呱，呱，呱。""我说，要是你们真的不相信，我可以数给你们看。"农夫说着便从口袋里掏出钱来数，并把二十个小钱算成一个银币，结果数来数去还是七个银币，然而青蛙们根本不管他数出来的钱是多少，只管一个劲地叫着："呱，呱，呱，呱。""什么？"农夫生气地喊道，"要是你们自以为懂得比我还多，那你们就自己去数吧。"他说着把钱全部扔进了水里。 他站在池塘边，等待着青蛙们把钱数完后还给他，可是青蛙们却固执己见，仍然叫着："呱，呱，呱，呱。"它们再也没有把钱还回来。 农夫在那里等了很久，一直等到天黑，才不得不回家。临走的时候，他大声骂青蛙："你们这些水鬼，你们这些蠢货，你们这些阔嘴巴、鼓眼睛的家伙！你们整天吵得别人耳朵根不得清静，而你们居然连七个银币都数不清！你们以为我会一直呆在这里等着你们把钱数清吗？"他说完这番话就走了，而青蛙们还在喊着：
"呱，呱，呱，呱"，气得他到家时仍然憋着一肚子气。

And when he had smeared the stone with their blood, life returned to it, and Faithful John stood once more safe and healthy before him. He said to the King, "Thy truth shall not go unrewarded," and took the heads of the children, put them on again, and rubbed the wounds with their blood, on which they became whole again immediately, and jumped about, and went on playing as if nothing had happened. Then the King was full of joy, and when he saw the Queen coming he hid Faithful John and the two children in a great cupboard. When she entered, he said to her, "Hast thou been praying in the church?" - "Yes," answered she, "but I have constantly been thinking of Faithful John and what misfortune has befallen him through us." Then said he, "Dear wife, we can give him his life again, but it will cost us our two little sons, whom we must sacrifice." The Queen turned pale, and her heart was full of terror, but she said, "We owe it to him, for his great fidelity." Then the King was rejoiced that she thought as he had thought, and went and opened the cupboard, and brought forth Faithful John and the children, and said, "God be praised, he is delivered, and we have our little sons again also," and told her how everything had occurred. Then they dwelt together in much happiness until their death.

但就在他拔出佩剑的一刹那，忠实的约翰复活了，他站在国王的面前，挡住了他的去路，说道："你的真心诚意应该得到报答。"两个孩子仍欢蹦活跳、喧闹嘻戏着，就像什么事也没有发生过一样。

国王满心欢喜。 当他看到王后回来了，就想试一试她。 他把忠实的约翰和两个儿子藏进了一个大衣橱里面。 当走她进房子后，他对她说："你去教堂祈祷了吗？"王后回答："是的，我总是思念着忠实的约翰，想着他对我们的忠诚。"国王说道："亲爱的夫人，我们能够使约翰复活，但必须以我们小儿子的死作代价，要救他就得舍去他们。"王后听了大吃一惊，脸唰地变得毫无血色，但她仍坚定地说道："只好这样了，没有他无私的忠心与真诚，就没有我们的今天，没有我们的小孩。"国王欣喜若狂地欢呼起来，因为妻子和自己的想法完全一样。他马上跑去打开衣橱，把两个孩子和忠实的约翰放了出来，说道："上帝也会为此而感到骄傲！他又和我们在一起了，我们的儿子也安然无恙。"接着他把全部经过告诉了她，大家高高兴兴欢地欢聚一堂，生活又充满了幸福和快乐。