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The Grimm Brothers' Fairy Tales
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The Two Kings' Children
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There was once upon a time a princess who
was extremely proud. If a wooer came she gave him some riddle to
guess, and if he could not guess it, he was sent contemptuously
away. She let it be made known also that whosoever solved her riddle
should marry her, let him be who he might. At length, three tailors
fell in with each other, the two eldest of whom thought they had
done so many dexterous jobs of work successfully that they could not
fail to succeed in this also, the third was a little, useless
harum-scarum, who did not even know his trade, but thought he must
have some luck in this venture, for where else was it to come from.
Then the two others said to him, just stay at home, you cannot do
much with your little understanding. The little tailor, however, did
not let himself be discouraged, and said he had set his mind to work
on this for once, and he would manage well enough, and he went forth
as if the whole world were his.
They all three announced themselves to the princess, and said she was to propound her riddle to them, and that the right persons were now come, who had understandings so fine that they could be threaded in a needle. Then said the princess, "I have two kinds of hair on my head, of what color is it." "If that be all," said the first, "it must be black and white, like the cloth which is called pepper and salt." The princess said, "Wrongly guessed, let the second answer." Then said the second, "If it be not black and white, then it is brown and red, like my father's Sunday coat." "Wrongly guessed," said the princess, "let the third give the answer for I see very well he knows it for certain." Then the little tailor stepped boldly forth and said, "The princess has a silver and a golden hair on her head, and those are the two different colors." |
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