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Brides on their trial - a fairy tale by Grimm Brothers

 Read "Brides on their trial" fairy tales for kids. Brides on their trial, is a short bedtime Story by the Grimm Brothers about a young shepherd who wanted very much to get married. The shepherd knew three very beautiful sisters, and so it was very difficult for him to decide which one to marry. He told his mother the dilemma he was facing and his mother taught the shepherd how to choose the right girl for him. She told him to invite the three sisters to his house and make them eat cheese, and after seeing the girls cut the peel off the cheese, he would figure out which of the three sisters was more appropriate to be his wife.

"Brides on their trial"
or "Looking for a Bride" or "Choosing a Bride"
a fairy tale by Grimm Brothers


There was once a young shepherd who wished much to marry, and was acquainted with three sisters who were all equally pretty, so that it was difficult to him to make a choice, and he could not decide to give the preference to any one of them. Then he asked his mother for advice, and she said, “Invite all three, and set some cheese before them, and watch how they eat it.” The youth did so; the first, however, swallowed the cheese with the rind on; the second hastily cut the rind off the cheese, but she cut it so quickly that she left much good cheese with it, and threw that away also; the third peeled the rind off carefully, and cut neither too much nor too little. The shepherd told all this to his mother, who said, “Take the third for thy wife.” This he did, and lived contentedly and happily with her.

The End

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