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«The crumbs on the table» in French

Les miettes de pain sur la table

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📖 Pages1
⏰ Reading time 10 minutes
💡 Originally published1843
🌏 Original language German
📌 Type Fairy tale
📌 Genres Children's literature, Parable, Ironic

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Les miettes de pain sur la table: read the book with parallel translation into English

Le coq dit un jour à ses poules: «N'ayez pas peur et venez avec moi dans la cuisine. Nous picorerons les miettes de pain sur la table. Notre maîtresse n'est pas à la maison, elle est allée rendre visite à quelqu'un.» - «Non, non, non,» gloussèrent les poules, «tu sais bien qu'elle nous punit toujours sévèrement.» - «Mais venez donc, tenta de les persuader le coq, puisqu'elle n'en saura rien!» Et puis, elle ne nous donne jamais rien de bon à manger. Mais les poules répétèrent: «Pas question, nous n'avons aucune envie d'y entrer avec toi.» Mais le coq insista tant que, finalement, elles y allèrent, elles montèrent sur la table et picorèrent soigneusement toutes les miettes jusqu'à la dernière. À cet instant, la maîtresse de maison rentra à la maison, se saisit d'un bâton, les balaya de la table et les battit à en faire voler leurs plumes. Et lorsqu'elles furent à nouveau devant la maison, les poules reprochèrent au coq: «Cot, cot, c-o-o-t! Tu vois, co-co-com-bien tu as eu tort!» Et le coq se mit à rire: «Co-co-co-rico! S'est-il passé quelque chose? Mais je le savais d'avance!»
A countryman one day said to his little puppies: "Come into the parlour and enjoy yourselves, and pick up the bread-crumbs on the table; your mistress has gone out to pay some visits." Then the little dogs said: "No, no, we will not go. If the mistress gets to know it, she will beat us." The countryman said: "She will know nothing about it. Do come; after all, she never gives you anything good." Then the little dogs again said: "Nay, nay, we must let it alone; we must not go." But the countryman let them have no peace until at last they went, and got on the table, and ate up the bread-crumbs with all their might. But at that very moment the mistress came, and seized the stick in great haste, and beat them and treated them very hardly. And when they were outside the house, the little dogs said to the countryman: "Dost, dost, dost, dost, dost thou see?" Then the countryman laughed and said: "Didn't, didn't, didn't, you expect it?" So they just had to run away.
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