Portuguese–English parallel text

Tom Tit Tot

Joseph Jacobs

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Era uma vez uma mulher, e ela assou cinco tortas. E quando elas saíram do forno, estavam tão queimadas que as cascas estavam duras demais para comer. Então ela diz à sua filha:

Once upon a time there was a woman, and she baked five pies. And when they came out of the oven, they were that overbaked the crusts were too hard to eat. So she says to her daughter:

“Filha”, diz ela, “coloque essas tortas aí na prateleira e deixe-as lá um pouco, e elas vão voltar a ficar boas”. Ela queria dizer, você sabe, que a casca ia amolecer.

“Darter,” says she, “put you them there pies on the shelf, and leave ‘em there a little, and they’ll come again.”—She meant, you know, the crust would get soft.

Mas a garota, ela diz para si mesma: “Bem, se elas vão voltar a ficar boas, eu vou comê-las agora”. E ela começou a comer e comeu todas, da primeira até a última.

But the girl, she says to herself: “Well, if they’ll come again, I’ll eat ‘em now.” And she set to work and ate ‘em all, first and last.

Bem, na hora do jantar, a mulher disse: “Vá lá e pegue uma daquelas tortas. Acho que elas já voltaram a ficar boas agora”.

Well, come supper-time the woman said: “Go you, and get one o’ them there pies. I dare say they’ve come again now.”

A garota foi e olhou, e não tinha nada além dos pratos. Então ela voltou e diz: “Nãão, elas não voltaram a ficar boas”.

The girl went and she looked, and there was nothing but the dishes. So back she came and says she: “Noo, they ain’t come again.”

“Nem uma delas?”, diz a mãe.

“Not one of ‘em?” says the mother.

“Nem uma delas”, diz ela.

“Not one of ‘em,” says she.

“Bem, voltando ou não voltando a ficar boas”, disse a mulher, “eu vou comer uma no jantar”.

“Well, come again, or not come again,” said the woman “I’ll have one for supper.”

“Mas você não pode, se elas não voltaram”, disse a garota.

“But you can’t, if they ain’t come,” said the girl.

“Mas eu posso”, diz ela. “Vá você e traga a melhor delas”.

“But I can,” says she. “Go you, and bring the best of ‘em.”

“Melhor ou pior”, diz a garota, “eu comi todas, e você não pode comer nenhuma até que voltem a ficar boas”.

“Best or worst,” says the girl, “I’ve ate ‘em all, and you can’t have one till that’s come again.”

Bem, a mulher ficou sem saber o que fazer, e levou sua fiação para a porta para fiar, e enquanto fiava, cantava:

Well, the woman she was done, and she took her spinning to the door to spin, and as she span she sang:

“Minha filha comeu cinco, cinco tortas hoje. Minha filha comeu cinco, cinco tortas hoje”.

“My darter ha’ ate five, five pies to-day. My darter ha’ ate five, five pies to-day.”

O rei estava descendo a rua e a ouviu cantar, mas não conseguiu ouvir o que ela cantava, então parou e disse:

The king was coming down the street, and he heard her sing, but what she sang he couldn’t hear, so he stopped and said:

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