One day when the Queen was at church , and the two children sat and played with their father , he gazed again full of grief on the stone statue , and sighing , wailed : `` Oh , if I could only restore you to life , my most trusty John ! '' Suddenly the stone began to speak , and said : `` Yes , you can restore me to life again if you are prepared to sacrifice what you hold most dear . '' And the King cried out : `` All I have in the world will I give up for your sake . '' The stone continued : `` If you cut off with your own hand the heads of your two children , and smear me with their blood , I shall come back to life . '' The King was aghast when he heard that he had himself to put his children to death ; but when he thought of Trusty John 's fidelity , and how he had even died for him , he drew his sword , and with his own hand cut the heads off his children . And when he had smeared the stone with their blood , life came back , and Trusty John stood once more safe and sound before him . He spake to the King : `` Your loyalty shall be rewarded , '' and taking up the heads of the children , he placed them on their bodies , smeared the wounds with their blood , and in a minute they were all right again and jumping about as if nothing had happened . Then the King was full of joy , and when he saw the Queen coming , he hid Trusty John and the two children in a big cupboard . As she entered he said to her : `` Did you pray in church ? '' `` Yes , '' she answered , `` but my thoughts dwelt constantly on Trusty John , and of what he has suffered for us . '' Then he spake : `` Dear wife , we can restore him to life , but the price asked is our two little sons ; we must sacrifice them . '' The Queen grew white and her heart sank , but she replied : `` We owe it to him on account of his great fidelity . '' Then he rejoiced that she was of the same mind as he had been , and going forward he opened the cupboard , and fetched the two children and Trusty John out , saying : `` God be praised ! Trusty John is free once more , and we have our two small sons again . '' Then he related to her all that had passed , and they lived together happily ever afterward . -LRB- 1 -RRB- -LRB- 1 -RRB- Grimm . THE BRAVE LITTLE TAILOR One summer 's day a little tailor sat on his table by the window in the best of spirits , and sewed for dear life . As he was sitting thus a peasant woman came down the street , calling out : `` Good jam to sell , good jam to sell . '' This sounded sweetly in the tailor 's ears ; he put his frail little head out of the window , and shouted : `` up here , my good woman , and you 'll find a willing customer . '' The woman climbed up the three flights of stairs with her heavy basket to the tailor 's room , and he made her spread out all the pots in a row before him .
He examined them all , lifted them up and smelled them , and said at last : `` This jam seems good , weigh me four ounces of it , my good woman ; and even XXXXX it 's a quarter of a pound I wo n't stick at it . ''
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