brethren [brothers] Grimm: The Sterntaler
E was once a little girl whose father and mother died, and it was so poor that it had no more little room to live in it, and had no bed to sleep in, and finally even nothing but the clothes she was wearing and a piece of bread in his hand, which had given him a compassionate heart.
But it was good and pious. And because it was so abandoned by everyone, it was trusting in the love God out into the field.
There he met a poor man, who said, "Oh, give me something . To eat, I'm so hungry, "It gave him the whole piece of bread and said," God bless thee, "and went on.
Then came a child who moaned and said. "It freezes me so in my head, give me something I can cover him," So she took off his cap and gave it to him .
And when he had gone for a while, came back a child and had no jacket and froze: there gave it her own, and further, one begged for a frock, and was it away that also.
Finally she got into a forest, and it was already dark, there came yet and asked for a smock, and taken the good little girl
"It is a dark night, no one sees you, you can very well give your shirt, "and took off his shirt and gave it to that also.
And what about so and nothing more, had at one time the stars fell from heaven, and were all bare money, and although she had just given her smock,
it had a new one, which was of the very finest linen.
gathered Since the money into this and was rich all his life.
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