Good is rewarded with good
Long ago, there lived an old man, who had two sons. One day the sons decided to seek their fortune. The older brother saddled his horse and was the first to begin his journey. After a half day of traveling he saw an ant on the road, who said to him:
- Please good sir, please stop! If you don't stop, you will ride over my children!
The man replied that he hasn't time to stop for little ants, so he rode over the ant's children.
After a few kilometers of riding the older brother saw a duck family on the road. The mother duck begged:
- Please good sir, please stop! Please let me get my children out of your way!
But the man didn't listen. He rode over the ducklings and they died.
After some time, a little tired bird landed on the man’s shoulder. The bird said:
- Please good sir, please let me rest here for a moment! I'm exhausted.
But the older brother shooed the bird away from his shoulder and yelled:
- My horse has enough to carry already!
The poor little tired bird landed by the side of the road.
After a few hours of riding, the older brother arrived at the king's castle. He had heard that the princess would marry him if he could do three tasks ordered by the king. But if he couldn't do these tasks, he would be sent to prison.
The older brother wanted to try his luck, so he signed up for the task. He was led to the courtyard of the castle by a servant of the king. In the courtyard there was a big mixed pile consisting of different grains: rye, barley and oat. The task was to separate these grains into different piles in only one night. The older brother couldn't do the task, so he was thrown into prison.
The younger brother hadn't heard anything about his brother in a long time, so it was his turn to saddle his horse and to begin his journey. After a half day of traveling he saw an ant on the road, who said to him:
- Please good sir, please stop! If you don't stop, you will ride over my children!
The younger brother stopped as the ant told him to. After the ant and his children were safe, the man continued his journey.
After a few kilometers of riding the younger brother saw a duck family on the road. The mother duck begged:
- Please good sir, please stop! Please let me get my children out of your way!
The man answered:
- Sure. I'm not in a hurry.
The younger brother waited until the duck family had gone. He then continued his journey.
After some time, a tiny tired bird landed on the younger brother's shoulder and asked for a permission to rest for a moment. The man agreed, and after a few minutes of resting the bird flew off.
The man arrived at the king's castle and wanted to try the three tasks, just like his brother. He was led to the same courtyard and he had to do the same task. He was sad and worried, because sorting the pile of grain seemed impossible.
Suddenly the same ant whose children the man had saved arrived. The ant said:
- Don't worry, I can take care of this!
The ant had brought thousands of ants with him. All of the ants began to work, and before sunrise all of the grain had been sorted into three different piles. The younger brother thanked the ants for helping him, and the ants left happily knowing that they could help the kind man.
But then the man had to do another task. The king had dropped his golden key to the sea, so it was the younger brother's job to retrieve it. The man sat crying on the beach, because he couldn't dive to the bottom of the ocean.
Suddenly the same duck whose children the man had saved arrived. The duck said:
- Don't worry, I can handle this!
The duck dived to the depths of the ocean, and a moment later it came back to the man with the king's golden key. The man brought the key to the king, and the man was allowed to do the third and the final task. The king said:
- You must guess which of my daughters is the youngest.
Yet again, the boy became sad and worried, because all of the princesses looked the same.
Suddenly the same little bird the man had helped flew in and whispered in the man's ear:
- The girl I'm going to fly over is the right one.
The man pointed at one of the princesses, and it was the right one. The youngest princess married the younger brother.
So was the good rewarded with good.
goldfish
Once upon a time there was a man and a woman. The man was a hardworking fisherman. Once he got a golden fish. It started to talk.
Goldfish: Let me go, please! If you do that I will give you what ever you want.
The man let the fish go, but it didn't go away.
Goldfish:What do you want for leting me go?
Fisherman: I don't know before I ask my wife.
He runs home.
Wife: Don't you have any fish?
Fisherman: No, but I catch a goldfish, who makes my dreams true because I let it go.
Wife: Can I have a new brush?
Fisherman runs to the fish and asks:
Fisherman: My wife wants a new brush.
Goldfish: Go home, says the fish. Your wife’s wish is fulfilled.
Fisherman goes home, and there was wife with a new brush and after a while wife says:
Wife: I want a new horse!
The man asks a horse from the fish and when he goes back home, there's a great horse waiting for him.
After a while the woman wants to have a new house and when the man about it from the fish he gives it again.
Wife: Because we have everything now, we should also have better clothes, good food and OUR own servant. Go to ask the fish!
The man goes and the fish gives again everything that the man asks.
A few days go by. Then the woman decides:
Wife: I want to become gentry, Go right away to the fish and ask that from it!
Man walks up to the shore, sees the fish and says:
Fisherman:Golden fish, my wife wants to become gentry.
Goldfish: Go home, says the fish. Your wife’s wish is fulfilled.
The man runs back to the house. There he finds his wife already as gentry. They are even walking her by her arm. Such an important person she has become.
But it wasn’t for long before his wife again sends his husband back to the fish. She says:
Wife: I want to become king’s wife and own a handsome castle. Go and ask that from the fish!
Feeling blue the man walks up to the shore, sees the fish and says quietly:
Fisherman: My wife wants to become king’s wife and own a handsome castle.
Goldfish: Go home, says the fish. Your wife’s wish is fulfilled.
The man walks home and so it is: there his wife walks as the king’s wife and lives in a marble castle. She has become so majestic she needs to be walked by both arms.
The man is watching for a moment and takes a step closer. His wife has barely seen him when she already runs up to him, slaps him (by his ear) and shouts:
Wife: Go to the fish immediately! I want to become the ruler of the sea.
The man walks up to the shore, feeling sad, where the fish is waiting.
Goldfish: Golden fish! My wife wants to become the ruler of the sea. He explains crying.
The fish stays still for a moment and says nothing. Then it splashes water with its tail, turns around and disappears into the waves.
The man keeps standing on the shore for a long while, waiting and watching. But nothing happens. He starts walking away his head down thinking that now his wife will beat him for sure.
Fearfully he arrives to the yard. There his wife , washing bat in her hand. Nothing’s left from the previous wealth.
If the wife hadn’t wished for unreasonable things she could’ve live happily ever after with her husband. But it was impossible for her to have her latest wish fulfilled since the golden fish was the ruler of the sea itself.
Goldfish: Let me go, please! If you do that I will give you what ever you want.
The man let the fish go, but it didn't go away.
Goldfish:What do you want for leting me go?
Fisherman: I don't know before I ask my wife.
He runs home.
Wife: Don't you have any fish?
Fisherman: No, but I catch a goldfish, who makes my dreams true because I let it go.
Wife: Can I have a new brush?
Fisherman runs to the fish and asks:
Fisherman: My wife wants a new brush.
Goldfish: Go home, says the fish. Your wife’s wish is fulfilled.
Fisherman goes home, and there was wife with a new brush and after a while wife says:
Wife: I want a new horse!
The man asks a horse from the fish and when he goes back home, there's a great horse waiting for him.
After a while the woman wants to have a new house and when the man about it from the fish he gives it again.
Wife: Because we have everything now, we should also have better clothes, good food and OUR own servant. Go to ask the fish!
The man goes and the fish gives again everything that the man asks.
A few days go by. Then the woman decides:
Wife: I want to become gentry, Go right away to the fish and ask that from it!
Man walks up to the shore, sees the fish and says:
Fisherman:Golden fish, my wife wants to become gentry.
Goldfish: Go home, says the fish. Your wife’s wish is fulfilled.
The man runs back to the house. There he finds his wife already as gentry. They are even walking her by her arm. Such an important person she has become.
But it wasn’t for long before his wife again sends his husband back to the fish. She says:
Wife: I want to become king’s wife and own a handsome castle. Go and ask that from the fish!
Feeling blue the man walks up to the shore, sees the fish and says quietly:
Fisherman: My wife wants to become king’s wife and own a handsome castle.
Goldfish: Go home, says the fish. Your wife’s wish is fulfilled.
The man walks home and so it is: there his wife walks as the king’s wife and lives in a marble castle. She has become so majestic she needs to be walked by both arms.
The man is watching for a moment and takes a step closer. His wife has barely seen him when she already runs up to him, slaps him (by his ear) and shouts:
Wife: Go to the fish immediately! I want to become the ruler of the sea.
The man walks up to the shore, feeling sad, where the fish is waiting.
Goldfish: Golden fish! My wife wants to become the ruler of the sea. He explains crying.
The fish stays still for a moment and says nothing. Then it splashes water with its tail, turns around and disappears into the waves.
The man keeps standing on the shore for a long while, waiting and watching. But nothing happens. He starts walking away his head down thinking that now his wife will beat him for sure.
Fearfully he arrives to the yard. There his wife , washing bat in her hand. Nothing’s left from the previous wealth.
If the wife hadn’t wished for unreasonable things she could’ve live happily ever after with her husband. But it was impossible for her to have her latest wish fulfilled since the golden fish was the ruler of the sea itself.
The house of fools
When the fools got their house ready they noticed that it was totally dark inside. They had completely forgotten to build windows. The fools spend a long time thinking, how to get the light into the house. Finally they got a great idea. All the villagers were summoned during a sunny day, and everybody had to have a sack with them. They had to carry the light inside the house with the sacks. They went outside. Everyone opened their sacks and held them open for a while. Then they tied the sacks up carefully, so the light would not escape, went inside the house and opened them. Then they used the same way to get the dark outside. But no matter how much they struggled, the house did not become any lighter.
A fellow named Matti just happened to come by and saw what the fools were doing."What are you doing?" he asked from the fools. "We are carrying light inside the house and darkness outside." Matti started to laugh a lot. "How much do you pay me, if I make your house lighter?" He asked. "One hundred markkas" The fool said. "And if you can make it really light, we pay two hundred." Matti took his axe, used it to cut a hole on the wall, and light got inside the house. The fools got really happy and paid him two hundred markkas, and matti walked happily back to his home.
When the fools noticed that it was so easy to get light inside, they chopped down the whole wall down. After a While they did the same thing to the other wall. They even started to chop down the third wall. But at the same time the roof dropped down, and the whole house fell down. That is how the building of the house of the fools ended.
THE princess mouse
- Hello everybody and welcome to tonights show. We have here now two special guests Mikko and his wife whose life is quite perfect now but it wasn't that easy at first.
- So Mikko, could you tell us your story?
- Yes, of course. It was a sunny afternoon and the wind was blowing and the birds were chirping and we were at the local store.
We reached for the salmiac at the local store and our eyes met. It was love at first sight. I suddenly saw the light and got a reason to live. I have never seen such a beauty before. Her eyes were shining like stars in the nightsky. In the following time we spend every moment together. I lost her from the water of my heart and didn't care about her appearance but other people had a different opinion about it.
- That's very great but not everybody thought it the same way. So ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Venla.
- Oh, hello. So, I know you have a very different opinion about this whole thing so can you maybe say it to us?
- Yes, I was in love with Mikko since I was a little girl. But I would have never thought that he would choose a mouse instead of me. I just can't be pretty like that, so I decided to take action and kill her. But then something very strange happened.
- Mrs. Mouse, could you tell us what happened to you or how did you become a mouse?
- Yes, of course. So, when I was five years old, I killed a mouse. But a witch saw it and got so angry that she cursed me to be a mouse and said if somebody tried to kill me and I experience what it feels like so when the cat attacked me I turned into human again.
- So, Mrs. Mouse, Mikko and Venla, thanks for joining us and thank you for your attention.
Hope to see you guys again. Bye!
- So Mikko, could you tell us your story?
- Yes, of course. It was a sunny afternoon and the wind was blowing and the birds were chirping and we were at the local store.
We reached for the salmiac at the local store and our eyes met. It was love at first sight. I suddenly saw the light and got a reason to live. I have never seen such a beauty before. Her eyes were shining like stars in the nightsky. In the following time we spend every moment together. I lost her from the water of my heart and didn't care about her appearance but other people had a different opinion about it.
- That's very great but not everybody thought it the same way. So ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Venla.
- Oh, hello. So, I know you have a very different opinion about this whole thing so can you maybe say it to us?
- Yes, I was in love with Mikko since I was a little girl. But I would have never thought that he would choose a mouse instead of me. I just can't be pretty like that, so I decided to take action and kill her. But then something very strange happened.
- Mrs. Mouse, could you tell us what happened to you or how did you become a mouse?
- Yes, of course. So, when I was five years old, I killed a mouse. But a witch saw it and got so angry that she cursed me to be a mouse and said if somebody tried to kill me and I experience what it feels like so when the cat attacked me I turned into human again.
- So, Mrs. Mouse, Mikko and Venla, thanks for joining us and thank you for your attention.
Hope to see you guys again. Bye!