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“The Straw, the Coal and the Bean” pour (v.):
verter
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm TRACK 9 glowing (adj.):
brillante
n old woman lived in a village. She had gathered a
Aserving of beans and wanted to cook them, so she
prepared a fi e in her fi eplace. To make it burn faster she
lit it with a handful of straw. While she was pouring the beans
into the pot, one of them fell unnoticed to the floo , coming
to rest next to a piece of straw. Soon afterward a glowing
coal jumped out of the fi eplace and landed next to them.

The straw said, "Dear friends, where do you come from?" The
coal answered, "I jumped from the fi eplace, to my good
fortune. If I had not forced my way out, I surely would have
died. I would have burned to ash."

The bean said, "I, too, saved my skin. If the old woman had
gotten me into the pot I would have been cooked to mush
without mercy, just like my comrades."

"Would my fate have been any better?" said the straw.
"The old woman sent all my brothers up in fi e and smoke.
She grabbed sixty at once and killed them. comrades,
Fortunately I slipped through her fingers. befalling
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"What should we do now?" asked the coal.
"Because we have so fortunately escaped death," answered
the bean, "I think that we should join together as comrades.
To prevent some new misfortune from befalling us here, let
us together make our way to another land."

This proposal pleased the other two, and they set forth all
together. They soon came to a small brook, and because
there was neither a bridge nor a walkway there, they did not
know how they would get across it. Then the straw had a
good idea, and said, "I will lay myself across it, and you can
walk across me like on a bridge."

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