Spanish–English parallel text
Los tres bobos
The Three Sillies
Joseph Jacobs
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Érase una vez un granjero y su mujer que tenían una hija, y un caballero la cortejaba.
Once upon a time there was a farmer and his wife who had one daughter, and a gentleman was courting her.
Todas las tardes él iba a verla y se quedaba a cenar en la granja, y a la hija siempre la mandaban al sótano a sacar la cerveza para la cena.
Every evening he came to see her and stayed for supper at the farmhouse, and the daughter was always sent down into the cellar to draw the beer for supper.
Así que una tarde la chica bajó a sacar la cerveza, y mientras la sacaba miró por casualidad al techo y vio un mazo clavado en una de las vigas.
So one evening she had gone down to draw the beer, and while she was drawing it she happened to look up at the ceiling, and she saw a mallet stuck in one of the beams.
Debía de llevar allí mucho, mucho tiempo, pero por alguna razón ella nunca lo había visto antes, y empezó a pensar.
It must have been there a long, long time, but somehow she had never noticed it before, and she began to think.
Y pensó que era muy peligroso tener ese mazo allí. Se dijo a sí misma: «Imagina que él y yo nos casáramos, tuviéramos un hijo, creciera hasta hacerse un hombre y bajara al sótano a sacar la cerveza, justo como hago yo ahora, y el mazo se le cayera en la cabeza y lo matara. ¡Qué cosa más terrible sería!».
And she thought it was very dangerous to have that mallet there. She said to herself: “Suppose he and I got married, and we had a son, and he grew up to be a man and came down into the cellar to draw the beer, just like I’m doing now, and the mallet fell on his head and killed him. What a terrible thing that would be!”
Y dejó la vela y la jarra, se sentó y empezó a llorar.
And she put down the candle and the jug, sat down, and began to cry.
Bueno, arriba empezaron a preguntarse por qué tardaba tanto en sacar la cerveza, y su madre bajó a buscarla. La encontró sentada en el banco llorando, y la cerveza corriendo por el suelo. «¡Pero bueno! ¿Qué pasa?»,
Well, upstairs they began to wonder why she was taking so long to draw the beer, and her mother went down to look for her. She found her sitting on the bench crying, and the beer running over the floor. “Why, what’s the matter?”
dijo su madre. «¡Ay, madre!», dijo ella. «¡Mira ese mazo tan horrible!
said her mother. “Oh, Mother!” she said. “Look at that horrible mallet!
Imagina que nos casáramos y tuviéramos un hijo, y él creciera y bajara al sótano a sacar la cerveza, y el mazo se le cayera en la cabeza y lo matara. ¡Qué cosa más terrible sería!». «¡Cielo santo!
Suppose we got married and had a son, and he grew up and came down to the cellar to draw the beer, and the mallet fell on his head and killed him. What a terrible thing that would be!” “Dear, dear!
¡Qué cosa más terrible sería!», dijo la madre, y se sentó junto a su hija y empezó a llorar también.
What a terrible thing that would be!” said the mother, and she sat down next to her daughter and began to cry too.
Luego, al cabo de un rato, el padre empezó a preguntarse por qué no volvían, y bajó al sótano a buscarlas él mismo. Allí estaban las dos sentadas llorando, y la cerveza corriendo por todo el suelo. «¿Qué pasa?», dijo él.
Then after a while the father began to wonder why they hadn’t come back, and he went down into the cellar to look for them himself. There the two of them sat crying, and the beer running all over the floor. “What’s the matter?” he said.
«Pues mira», dijo la madre, «mira ese mazo tan horrible.
“Why,” said the mother, “look at that horrible mallet.
Solo imagina que nuestra hija y su novio se casaran y tuvieran un hijo, y él creciera y bajara al sótano a sacar la cerveza, y el mazo se le cayera en la cabeza y lo matara. ¡Qué cosa más terrible sería!».
Just suppose our daughter and her sweetheart got married and had a son, and he grew up and came down into the cellar to draw the beer, and the mallet fell on his head and killed him. What a terrible thing that would be!”
«¡Dios mío, Dios mío! ¡Pues sí que lo sería!», dijo el padre, y se sentó junto a las otras dos y empezó a llorar.
“Dear, dear, dear! So it would!” said the father, and he sat down next to the other two and began to cry.
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