Thomas Kinkade Sunrise Chapel painting

Thomas Kinkade Sunrise Chapel painting
Thomas Kinkade Sunday Outing painting
Now it befell that one evening not long before Christmas, when the man had been cutting out, he said to his wife, before going to bed, "What think you if we were to stay up to-night to see who it is that lends us this helping hand?"
The woman liked the idea, and lighted a candle, and then they hid themselves in a corner of the room, behind some clothes which were hanging up there, and watched. When it was midnight, two pretty little naked men came, sat down by the shoemaker's table, took all the work which was cut out before them and began to stitch, and sew, and hammer so skilfully and so quickly with their little fingers that the shoemaker could not avert his eyes for astonishment. They did not stop until all was done, and stood finished on the table, and they ran quickly away.
Next morning the woman said, "The little men have made us rich, and we really must show that we are grateful for it. They run about so, and have nothing on, and must be cold. I'll tell you

Thomas Kinkade Sunrise Chapel painting

Thomas Kinkade Sunrise Chapel painting
Thomas Kinkade Sunday Outing painting
hieß ihn essen. Das Schneiderlein aber war viel zu schwach, um den Baum zu halten, und als der Riese losließ, fuhr der Baum in die Höhe, und der Schneider ward mit in die Luft geschnellt.Als er wieder ohne Schaden herabgefallen war, sprach der Riese: "Was ist das, hast du nicht die Kraft, die schwache Gerte zu halten?"
"An der Kraft fehlt es nicht", antwortete das Schneiderlein,"meinst du, das wäre etwas für einen, der siebene mit einem Streich getroffen hat? Ich bin über den Baum gesprungen, weil die Jäger da unten in das Gebüsch schießen. Spring nach, wenn du's vermagst."
Der Riese machte den Versuch, konnte aber nicht über den Baum kommen, sondern blieb in den Ästen hängen, also daß das Schneiderlein auch hier die Oberhand behielt.
Der Riese sprach: "Wenn du ein so tapferer Kerl bist, so komm mit in unsere Höhle und übernachte bei uns."