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«The old beggar-woman» in Spanish

La vieja pordiosera

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📖 Pages1
⏰ Reading time 10 minutes
💡 Originally published1815
🌏 Original language German
📌 Type Fairy tale
📌 Genres Children's literature, Philosophical, Parable

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La vieja pordiosera: read the book with parallel translation into English

Érase una vez una mujer muy vieja. En más de una ocasión habrás visto a una vieja pidiendo limosna, ¿verdad? Pues también ésta lo hacía, y cada vez que le daban algo, exclamaba:
- ¡Dios se lo pague!
Llamó cierto día a una puerta y encontróse con un bribón de muchacho que se estaba calentando al fuego. El mozo miró con simpatía a la pobre vieja, que continuaba en la puerta, tiritando:
- Acercaos a calentaros, abuela - le dijo.
Entró la mujer y se aproximó tanto al fuego que, sin darse ella cuenta, las llamas prendieron en sus harapos, mientras el muchacho se quedó mirándolo. Debía haber apagado el fuego, ¿no? ¿Verdad que su deber era apagarlo? Y si no tenía agua a mano, debía acumular en los ojos toda la que tenía en el cuerpo y, a fuerza de lágrimas, hacer manar dos arroyos con que extinguirlo.
There was once an old woman, but thou hast surely seen an old woman go a-begging before now? This woman begged likewise, and when she got anything she said, "May God reward you." The beggar- woman came to a door, and there by the fire a friendly rogue of a boy was standing warming himself. The boy said kindly to the poor old woman as she was standing shivering thus by the door, "Come, old mother, and warm yourself." She came in, but stood too near the fire, so that her old rags began to burn, and she was not aware of it. The boy stood and saw that, but he ought to have put the flames out. Is it not true that he ought to have put them out? And if he had not any water, then should he have wept all the water in his body out of his eyes, and that would have supplied two pretty streams with which to extinguish them.
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