Once upon a time, three ‘gelin’ brides all lived together happily in one family and never quarrelled.
One day ‘Happiness’ came to talk to the oldest gelin.
“My dear girl, I am to leave your family so I would like to give you whatever you want before I go.”
“Well,” said the oldest,” give me lots of wealth and go wherever you want.”
Happiness gave her everything she wanted and then went to the middle gelin.

“My dear, I am leaving and before we say goodbye to each other, you may ask me for whatever you want and you will get it.”
“Good,” the middle bride replied. “If you are leaving anyway, just give me lots of money and then you are free to go.”
Happiness gave the money to the middle bride and then went to the youngest.

“My dear, I have to leave but please ask me for whatever you want before I do.” Ask for gold or silver, I’ll give you anything.”“It is very bad that you are leaving,” the younger gelin replied sadly.
“I want neither gold, nor silver.
I just want you to give us health and All the rest we can achieve ourselves.”
friendship. “If this is the only thing you want I think I don’t have to leave.
will stay in your house for good,” said Happiness. Time passed and the elder brides spent all their money. They had to ask the younger bride for help and she never refused.
As for the younger bride, she lived in happiness for the rest of her life.

Once upon a time there was a man who was a matchmaker.
All year round he looked for grooms and brides and in this way he made his living.
One day he found a match to which both sets of parents agreed.
However, on learning that the groom was thirty- five years old, the girls parents were no longer so sure as their daughter was only fifteen years old.
"We are not prepared to give our daughter to this man, as there is a twenty year age difference between them," they said.
The matchmaker didn't know what to do and decided to apply to the court.
The judge called for the both sides to ask them questions.
"First you agreed to give your daughter to this man, why do you refuse now?" he said to the parents.
"The matchmaker deceived us.
We didn't know the groom was so old.
We can't give our daughter to him.We would agree if he were even twice as old as our daughter but he is more than twice as old!".
"Well," answered the judge.
"Let your daughter marry him in five years. The groom will wait for her.
Then he will be forty and your daughter will be twenty."
The Judge's verdict was declared, and both sides apologized and went away.
This really was a fair verdict!

One fine evening a young princess put on her bonnet and clogs, and went out to take a walk by herself in a wood; and when she came to a cool spring of water with a rose in the middle of it, she sat herself down to rest a while. Now she had a golden ball in her hand, which was her favourite plaything; and she was always tossing it up into the air, and catching it again as it fell.
After a time she threw it up so high that she missed catching it as it fell; and the ball bounded away, and rolled along on the ground, until at last it fell down into the spring. The princess looked into the spring after her ball, but it was very deep, so deep that she could not see the bottom of it. She began to cry, and said, 'Alas! if I could only get my ball again, I would give all my fine clothes and jewels, and everything that I have in the world.'
Whilst she was speaking, a frog put its head out of the water, and said, 'Princess, why do you weep so bitterly?'
'Alas!' said she, 'what can you do for me, you nasty frog? My golden ball has fallen into the spring.'
The frog said, 'I do not want your pearls, and jewels, and fine clothes; but if you will love me, and let me live with you and eat from off your golden plate, and sleep on your bed, I will bring you your ball again.'
'What nonsense,' thought the princess, 'this silly frog is talking! He can never even get out of the spring to visit me, though he may be able to get my ball for me, and therefore I will tell him he shall have what he asks.'
So she said to the frog, 'Well, if you will bring me my ball, I will do all you ask.'
Then the frog put his head down, and dived deep under the water; and after a little while he came up again, with the ball in his mouth, and threw it on the edge of the spring.
As soon as the young princess saw her ball, she ran to pick it up; and she was so overjoyed to have it in her hand again, that she never thought of the frog, but ran home with it as fast as she could.