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Hans in Luck in a Train - Intermediate German with Herr Antrim #14
Hans in Luck
Hans served his master for seven years.
He spoke to him
“Sir, my time is up.
Now I would like to go back home to my mother.
Give me my due.”
The master answered
“You have served me faithfully and honestly.
As the service was, so shall the payment be”
and gave him a large piece of gold.
Hans put the gold in his bag,
hoisted the bag onto his shoulder
and took to the road.
Eventually the gold became heavy
and he couldn’t hardly carry it anymore.
Then came a rider past Hans.
Hans said very loudly,
“how nice it would be to ride on a horse.
Then I would just have to sit as if on a chair and I could still continue on.”
To this the rider said,
“I’ll give you my horse, if you give me some money.”
Hans answered,
“Gladly. I can’t carry this gold anymore.
I’ll gladly trade it for your horse.”
Said and done. Before Hans went away, the rider said something else.
“If you want to go faster, you simply have to click with your tongue and say ‘hop hop’.”
Hans thanked the rider and rode on in the direction of his home.
The rider carried the gold in the direction of his home.
Hans rode happily on the horse,
but after a while he thought he should go faster.
He started clicking with his tongue and calling out “hop hop”.
The horse ran too fast, however.
Hans was thrown off.
The horse tried to run off,
but a farmer stopped it.
Hans mumbled to himself
“stupid horse. It threw me off and now I am lying on the ground.”
The farmer heard this and said to Hans,
“If the horse is really causing you so much trouble,
I could take it off of your hands.
I would gladly trade my cow for the horse.”
Hans was very happy about that.
“I can get milk, butter and cheese from this cow.
Then I will never be hungry.” he thought.
Hans and his cow went a while.
Eventually Hans became thirsty and hungry.
He tied the cow to a tree and started milking her.
No matter how hard he tried,
no milk came out.
The cow was very old and couldn’t produce any milk anymore.
Then came a butcher with a pig past Hans and the cow.
The butcher saw that Hans was having a hard time and he asked how he could help him.
Hans replied,
“I have such great thirst and hunger.
This cow has no milk for me.
Maybe I should just slaughter her,
but I don’t really like beef.
I would prefer to have pork.”
The butcher handed his bottle to Hans and said,
“I’ll gladly trade this pig for your cow.
Then I will slaughter the cow in my butcher shop
and you can eat the pig.”
“I thank you. I will do that gladly.” said Hans.
The butcher and Hans traded the animals
and went on their way.
Shortly thereafter Hans met a boy
who had a goose with him.
Hans told him about his luck
and how he had so advantageously traded.
The boy showed Hans the goose and said,
“She has been fattened for eight weeks.
Now she is almost perfect for slaughter.”
“Well, my pig is also not bad.
It is pretty big and will taste quite good.” spoke Hans.
The boy said, “I have to give you a warning.
Yesterday a pig was stolen from the village.
I fear that if you come through the village with that pig,
the villagers will think you stole it.”
“I could roast this goose and after that use the fat from it for goose fat bread.
I could stuff my pillow with the feathers.” Hans thought.
They traded the pig and the goose and went further along their ways.
When Hans arrived in the village, there stood a scissor sharpener in front of him.
He sharpened a pair of scissors on a spinning stone wheel.
Hans paused and watched him.
Finally the sharpener said,
“Where did you buy this beautiful goose?”
“I didn’t buy it, but rather traded it for my pig.” said Hans
“And the pig?”
“I got that for a cow.”
“And the cow?”
“I got that for my horse.”
“And the horse?”
“I bought it for a clump of gold.”
“And the gold?”
“That was my payment for seven years of service.”
The sharpener explained
that one could earn a good living from sharpening.
“If you reach into your pockets, you will always find money inside.
It is also quite simple to learn.
You simply need a wheel.” he said.
“I am lucky again.” thought Hans.
“I will trade my goose for his wheel and I will always have money.”
The sharpener gave Hans the wheel
and Hans went further in the direction of his home.
“I have to have been born in a lucky skin.” he called out.
“Everything that I want, I get.”
Eventually Hans noticed that he was still hungry,
as he didn’t eat the cow, the pig or the goose
and he was tired, because he had been walking on foot all day.
He couldn’t carry the stone anymore.
He found a fountain and wanted some water from it.
Hans laid the stone next to the fountain and bent over to get water.
While doing so he stumbled and shoved the stone into the fountain.
Hans jumped for joy and thanked God
that he had freed him from the stone.
Now Hans didn’t have to carry the stone anymore and he could go home without any impediments.
“There isn’t a person under the sun who is as lucky as I am.” he said.
The End
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