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White Rose and Red Rose
Grimm Fairy Tales

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Translation　ちいさな翻訳屋さん

　Once upon a time, there was a good sister, White Rose and Red Rose living in a forest.

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　They always said, “We will stay together forever.”

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　One night, it was a terrible snowy day. A bear freezing in the cold came and asked them for help.

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　They invited the bear into their warm room and give him a place to sleep.
　Since then, the bear visited them every night.

　They had been good friends. One day, however, the bear came and said goodbye.

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“In spring, a bad dwarf comes from the underground to steal my treasure.
　I have to watch them. So I will not be able to come here.”
“Oh my…”

　Feeling sad, the two sisters went out to gather branches.

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　They found a struggling dwarf with his limbs flapped under the fallen tree.
　They saw his long beards entangled in a branch.

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　White Rose kindly cut his long tangled beards with her scissors.
　Though,
“Hey, you!  Why did you cut my proud beards?”

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　The dwarf with no word of thanks pulled out the bag filled with gold coins from the root of the tree and went away quickly.

　 Few days later, the two sisters found a dwarf with his beards bitten by a fish in the river.

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　They noticed he was the dwarf.

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　Again, they helped him by cutting off his beards, however, he shouted,

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“You cut my special beards again!”
Then he went disappeared toward behind a rock with a bag filled with pearls.

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　After a while, they rescued the dwarf who was about to be kidnapped by an eagle.

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　Of course, again, without saying thank you, the dwarf clutched a bag filled with treasures and said,

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"Stop  staring at my treasures."
　At that time.
“Those are mine!”

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　The bear appeared and knocked out the dwarf.
　And then, the fur skin was unwrapped and the bear changed into a prince.

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“Thank you for finding the bad dwarf.
“Actually, I was cast a spell by the dwarf and was changed into the bear shape.

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　The beards are the source of magic power.Thanks to your cutting his beard, I could knock down the dwarf.

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　My dear White Rose, will you marry me?
　And I want you, Red Rose, to marry my brother. How about that? Then we will be able to stay together forever.”

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　So, White Rose and Red Rose, as they always said, lived together for a long time.

The End

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