A terrible incident! - said the chicken, who lived on the other side of the city, and not where the incident happened. - A terrible incident in the chicken coop! I just don't dare to spend the night alone now! It's good that there are many of us on the perch!
And she began to tell, so much so that the feathers of all the hens stood on end, and the comb of the rooster shriveled. Yes, yes, the real truth!
But we'll start over, and it all started in a chicken coop on the other side of the city.
The sun was setting, and all the chickens were already on the perches. One of them, a white short-legged hen in all respects respectable and respectable, regularly carrying the required number of eggs, having sat down comfortably, began to clean and preen herself before going to bed. And - here is one small feather flew out and fell to the ground.
Look, it flew! - said the chicken. - Well, nothing, the more prettier, the more prettier!
It was said in this way, in jest - the hen was generally of a cheerful disposition, but this did not in the least prevent her from being, as has already been said, a very, very respectable hen. With that she fell asleep.
The chicken coop was dark. The hens were sitting side by side, and the one that was sitting side by side with our hen had not yet slept: it wasn’t that she deliberately overheard the words of her neighbor, but she heard it out of the corner of her ear - that’s what you should do if you want to live in peace with your neighbors! And so she could not resist and whispered to her other neighbor:
Heard? I don't want to name names, but there is a hen among us who is ready to pluck out all her feathers just to be prettier. If I were a cock, I would despise her!
Just above the hens an owl was sitting in a nest with her husband and children; owls have acute hearing, and they did not miss a single word of a neighbor. At the same time, all of them intensively rolled their eyes, and the owl waved its wings, like fans.
Shh! Don't listen kids! However, of course, you have already heard? Me too. Oh! Just ears wither! One of the hens was so forgotten that she began to pluck her feathers right in front of the rooster!
Watch out, the kids are here! - said the father owl. “You don’t talk about such things in front of children!”
We must still tell our neighbor owl about this, she is such a nice person!
And the owl flew to the neighbor.
Whoo, whoo! - then both owls hooted right above the neighboring dovecote.
You heard? You heard? Yes! One hen plucked out all her feathers because of a rooster! She'll freeze, freeze to death! If it's not already cold! Yes!
Chicken chicken! Where? - doves cooed.
In the next yard! It was almost in front of my eyes! It's just indecent to even talk about it, but it's the real truth!
We believe, we believe! - said the pigeons and cooed to the chickens sitting below: - Chickens! One hen, and others say, even two plucked out all their feathers in order to distinguish themselves in front of a rooster! A risky undertaking. That way and catch a cold and die for a short time, but they already died!
Crow! crowed the rooster, flying up the fence. - Wake up! - His eyes were still stuck together from sleep, and he was already shouting:
Three hens died from an unhappy love for a rooster! They plucked out all their feathers! Such a wicked story! I don't want to be silent about it! Let it spread all over the world!
Let, let! the bats squealed, the hens cackled, the rooster crowed. - Let, let!
And the story spread from yard to yard, from chicken coop to chicken coop, and finally reached the place where it started.
Five hens, - it was said here, - plucked out all their feathers to show which of them was more emaciated from love for a rooster! Then they pecked each other to death, to shame and disgrace to all their kind and to the loss of their masters!
The hen that dropped the feather had no idea that the whole story was about her, and, like a hen in all respects respectable, she said:
I despise those chickens! But there are many of them! However, one cannot remain silent about such things! And I, for my part, will do everything to get this story into the newspapers! Let it spread all over the world - these chickens and their whole family are worth it!
Summary of the fairy tale by H.K. Andersen "The True Truth"
In one of the chicken coops in the city, at the time when the sun was setting and all the hens were perching, one of the hens lost a feather. She said that there was nothing wrong with that, and that "the more you get ugly, the more beautiful you become." The chicken said her phrase as a joke, because she had a cheerful disposition.
But the other hen took it seriously and told the other that one of them was ready to pluck all the feathers to please the rooster. Others have already said that the hen began to pluck herself right in front of the rooster, because she plucked. Then they came up with the idea that because of the love for the rooster, three hens plucked themselves and died, then there were five hens and they pecked each other.
When this story reached the main character, she said that she would write about it in the newspaper.
And the newspapers really printed the whole story, and this is the true truth: from one feather it is not at all difficult to make as many as five chickens!
The main idea of \u200b\u200bthe tale "The True Truth"
This is a very funny fairy tale, similar to real life. The author, using a simple example, showed how a big gossip is born from a simple situation. As the saying goes: "Flies made an elephant." Therefore, if you heard something, somewhere, about someone, then there may be 1 percent of the truth. Don't believe the rumours.
And in the end I want to say: "Always behave nicely and with dignity, watch what you say so that your behavior does not give rise to indecent rumors, and this does not affect your reputation.
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1. Did you like H. K. Andersen's fairy tale "The True Truth"?
2. What does this tale make you think about?
3. Does the proverb "One lied, the other did not make out, the third distorted in her own way" fit this tale?
Terrible incident! - said the chicken, who lived on the other side of the city, and not where the incident happened. - A terrible incident in the chicken coop! I just don't dare to spend the night alone now! It's good that there are many of us on our nest!
And she began to tell, so much so that the feathers of all the hens stood on end, and the comb of the rooster shriveled. Yes, yes, the real truth!
But we'll start over, and it all started in a chicken coop on the other side of the city.
The sun was setting, and all the chickens were already on the perches. One of them, a white short-legged hen in all respects respectable and respectable, regularly carrying the required number of eggs, having sat down comfortably, began to clean and preen herself before going to bed. And - here is one small feather flew out and fell to the ground.
Look, it flew! - said the chicken. - Well, nothing, the more prettier, the more prettier!
It was said in this way, in jest - the hen was generally of a cheerful disposition, but this did not in the least prevent her from being, as has already been said, a very, very respectable hen. With that she fell asleep.
The chicken coop was dark. The hens were sitting side by side, and the one that was sitting side by side with our hen had not yet slept: it wasn’t that she deliberately overheard the words of her neighbor, but she heard it out of the corner of her ear - that’s what you should do if you want to live in peace with your neighbors! And so she could not resist and whispered to her other neighbor:
Heard? I don't want to name names, but there is a hen among us who is ready to pluck out all her feathers just to be prettier. If I were a cock, I would despise her!
Just above the hens an owl was sitting in a nest with her husband and children; owls have acute hearing, and they did not miss a single word of a neighbor. At the same time, all of them intensively rolled their eyes, and the owl waved its wings, like fans.
Shh! Don't listen kids! However, of course, you have already heard? Me too. Oh! Just ears wither! One of the hens was so forgotten that she began to pluck her feathers right in front of the rooster!
Watch out, the kids are here! - said the father owl. “You don’t talk about such things in front of children!”
We must still tell our neighbor owl about this, she is such a nice person!
And the owl flew to the neighbor.
Whoo, whoo! - then both owls hooted right above the neighboring dovecote. - You heard? You heard? Yes! One hen plucked out all her feathers because of a rooster! She'll freeze, freeze to death! If it's not already cold! Yes!
Chicken chicken! Where? - doves cooed.
In the next yard! It was almost in front of my eyes! It's just indecent to even talk about it, but it's the real truth!
We believe, we believe! - said the pigeons and cooed to the chickens sitting below: - Chickens! One hen, and others say, even two plucked out all their feathers in order to distinguish themselves in front of a rooster! A risky undertaking. That way and catch a cold and die for a short time, but they already died!
Crow! crowed the rooster, flying up the fence. - Wake up! - At the very eyes, they were still stuck together from sleep, and he was already shouting: - Three hens died from an unhappy love for a rooster! They plucked out all their feathers! Such a wicked story! I don't want to be silent about it! Let it spread all over the world!
Let, let! the bats squealed, the hens cackled, the rooster crowed. - Let, let!
And the story spread from yard to yard, from chicken coop to chicken coop, and finally reached the place where it started.
Five hens, - it was said here, - plucked out all their feathers to show which of them was more emaciated from love for a rooster! Then they pecked each other to death, to shame and disgrace to all their kind and to the loss of their masters!
The hen that dropped the feather had no idea that the whole story was about her, and, like a hen in all respects respectable, she said:
I despise those chickens! But there are many of them! However, one cannot remain silent about such things! And I, for my part, will do everything to get this story into the newspapers! Let it spread all over the world - these chickens and their whole family are worth it!
And the newspapers really printed the whole story, and this is the true truth: from one feather it is not at all difficult to make as many as five chickens!
Terrible incident! - said the chicken, who lived on the other side of the city, and not where the incident happened. - A terrible incident in the chicken coop! I just don't dare to spend the night alone now! It's good that there are many of us on our nest!
And she began to tell, so much so that the feathers of all the hens stood on end, and the comb of the rooster shriveled. Yes, yes, the real truth!
But we'll start over, and it all started in a chicken coop on the other side of the city.
The sun was setting, and all the chickens were already on the perches. One of them, a white short-legged hen in all respects respectable and respectable, regularly carrying the required number of eggs, having sat down comfortably, began to clean and preen herself before going to bed. And - here is one small feather flew out and fell to the ground.
Look, it flew! - said the chicken. - Well, nothing, the more prettier, the more prettier!
It was said in this way, in jest - the hen was generally of a cheerful disposition, but this did not in the least prevent her from being, as has already been said, a very, very respectable hen. With that she fell asleep.
The chicken coop was dark. The hens were sitting side by side, and the one that was sitting side by side with our hen had not yet slept: it wasn’t that she deliberately overheard the words of her neighbor, but she heard it out of the corner of her ear - that’s what you should do if you want to live in peace with your neighbors! And so she could not resist and whispered to her other neighbor:
Heard? I don't want to name names, but there is a hen among us who is ready to pluck out all her feathers just to be prettier. If I were a cock, I would despise her!
Just above the hens an owl was sitting in a nest with her husband and children; owls have acute hearing, and they did not miss a single word of a neighbor. At the same time, all of them intensively rolled their eyes, and the owl waved its wings, like fans.
Shh! Don't listen kids! However, of course, you have already heard? Me too. Oh! Just ears wither! One of the hens was so forgotten that she began to pluck her feathers right in front of the rooster!
Watch out, the kids are here! - said the father owl. “You don’t talk about such things in front of children!”
We must still tell our neighbor owl about this, she is such a nice person!
And the owl flew to the neighbor.
Whoo, whoo! - then both owls hooted right above the neighboring dovecote. - You heard? You heard? Yes! One hen plucked out all her feathers because of a rooster! She'll freeze, freeze to death! If it's not already cold! Yes!
Chicken chicken! Where? - doves cooed.
In the next yard! It was almost in front of my eyes! It's just indecent to even talk about it, but it's the real truth!
We believe, we believe! - said the pigeons and cooed to the chickens sitting below: - Chickens! One hen, and others say, even two plucked out all their feathers in order to distinguish themselves in front of a rooster! A risky undertaking. That way and catch a cold and die for a short time, but they already died!
Crow! crowed the rooster, flying up the fence. - Wake up! - At the very eyes, they were still stuck together from sleep, and he was already shouting: - Three hens died from an unhappy love for a rooster! They plucked out all their feathers! Such a wicked story! I don't want to be silent about it! Let it spread all over the world!
Let, let! the bats squealed, the hens cackled, the rooster crowed. - Let, let!
And the story spread from yard to yard, from chicken coop to chicken coop, and finally reached the place where it started.
Five hens, - it was said here, - plucked out all their feathers to show which of them was more emaciated from love for a rooster! Then they pecked each other to death, to shame and disgrace to all their kind and to the loss of their masters!
The hen that dropped the feather had no idea that the whole story was about her, and, like a hen in all respects respectable, she said:
I despise those chickens! But there are many of them! However, one cannot remain silent about such things! And I, for my part, will do everything to get this story into the newspapers! Let it spread all over the world - these chickens and their whole family are worth it!
And the newspapers really printed the whole story, and this is the true truth: from one feather it is not at all difficult to make as many as five chickens!
"The True Truth" read the text
Fairy tale by H. H. Andersen (1852)
Terrible incident! - said the chicken, who lived on the other side of the city, and not where the incident happened. “A terrible incident in the chicken coop!” I just don't dare to spend the night alone now! It's good that there are many of us on our nest!
And she began to tell, so much so that the feathers of all the hens stood on end, and the comb of the rooster shriveled. Yes, yes, the real truth!
But we'll start over, and it all started in a chicken coop on the other side of the city.
The sun was setting, and all the chickens were already on the perch. One of them, a white short-legged hen in all respects respectable and respectable, regularly carrying the required number of eggs, having sat down comfortably, began to clean and preen herself before going to bed. And - here is one small feather flew out and fell to the ground.
- Look, it flew! said the hen. - Well, nothing, the more you prettier, the more prettier you become!
It was said in this way, in jest - the hen was generally of a cheerful disposition, but this did not in the least prevent her from being, as has already been said, a very, very respectable hen. With that she fell asleep.
The chicken coop was dark. The hens were sitting side by side, and the one that was sitting side by side with our hen had not yet slept; And so she could not resist and whispered to her other neighbor:
- Did you hear? I don't want to name names, but there is a hen among us who is ready to pluck out all her feathers just to be prettier. If I were a cock, I would despise her!
Just above the hens an owl was sitting in a nest with her husband and children; owls have acute hearing, and they did not miss a single word of a neighbor. At the same time, all of them intensively rolled their eyes, and the owl waved its wings, like fans.
— Shh! Don't listen kids! However, of course, you have already heard? Me too. Oh! Just ears wither! One of the hens was so forgotten that she began to pluck her feathers right in front of the rooster!
“Look out, there are kids here!” said the father owl. “You don’t talk about such things in front of children!”
- We still need to tell our neighbor owl about this, she is such a nice person!
And the owl flew to the neighbor.
— Uh-huh, uh-huh! - then both owls hooted right above the neighboring dovecote. - You heard? You heard? Yes! One hen plucked out all her feathers because of a rooster! She'll freeze, freeze to death! If it's not already cold! Yes!
- Chicken chicken! Where? the doves cooed.
- In the next yard! It was almost in front of my eyes! It's just indecent to even talk about it, but it's the real truth!
We believe, we believe! - said the pigeons and cooed to the hens sitting below: - Chicken, chicken! One hen, and others say, even two plucked out all their feathers in order to distinguish themselves in front of a rooster! A risky undertaking. That way and catch a cold and die for a short time, but they already died!
— Cuckoo! crowed the rooster, flying up the fence. - Wake up! - His eyes were still stuck together from sleep, and he was already shouting: - Three hens died from an unhappy love for a rooster! They plucked out all their feathers! Such a wicked story! I don't want to be silent about it! Let it spread all over the world!
— Let, let! the bats squealed, the hens cackled, the rooster crowed. — Let, let!
And the story spread from yard to yard, from chicken coop to chicken coop, and finally reached the place where it started.
- Five hens, - it was said here, - plucked out all their feathers to show which of them was more emaciated from love for a rooster! Then they pecked each other to death, to shame and disgrace to all their kind and to the loss of their masters!
The hen that dropped the feather had no idea that the whole story was about her, and, like a hen in all respects respectable, she said:
“I despise those chickens!” But there are many of them! However, one cannot remain silent about such things! And I, for my part, will do everything to get this story into the newspapers! Let it spread all over the world - these chickens and all their kind are worth it!
And the newspapers really printed the whole story, and this is the true truth: from one feather it is not at all difficult to make as many as five chickens!
Terrible incident! - said the chicken, who lived on the other side of the city, and not where the incident happened. - A terrible incident in the chicken coop! I just don't dare to spend the night alone now! It's good that there are many of us on our nest!
And she began to tell, so much so that the feathers of all the hens stood on end, and the comb of the rooster shriveled. Yes, yes, the real truth!
But we'll start over, and it all started in a chicken coop on the other side of the city.
The sun was setting, and all the chickens were already on the perches. One of them, a white short-legged hen in all respects respectable and respectable, regularly carrying the required number of eggs, having sat down comfortably, began to clean and preen herself before going to bed. And - here is one small feather flew out and fell to the ground.
Look, it flew! - said the chicken. - Well, nothing, the more prettier, the more prettier!
It was said in this way, in jest - the hen was generally of a cheerful disposition, but this did not in the least prevent her from being, as has already been said, a very, very respectable hen. With that she fell asleep.
The chicken coop was dark. The hens were sitting side by side, and the one that was sitting side by side with our hen had not yet slept: it wasn’t that she deliberately overheard the words of her neighbor, but she heard it out of the corner of her ear - that’s what you should do if you want to live in peace with your neighbors! And so she could not resist and whispered to her other neighbor:
Heard? I don't want to name names, but there is a hen among us who is ready to pluck out all her feathers just to be prettier. If I were a cock, I would despise her!
Just above the hens an owl was sitting in a nest with her husband and children; owls have acute hearing, and they did not miss a single word of a neighbor. At the same time, all of them intensively rolled their eyes, and the owl waved its wings, like fans.
Shh! Don't listen kids! However, of course, you have already heard? Me too. Oh! Just ears wither! One of the hens was so forgotten that she began to pluck her feathers right in front of the rooster!
Watch out, the kids are here! - said the father owl. “You don’t talk about such things in front of children!”
We must still tell our neighbor owl about this, she is such a nice person!
And the owl flew to the neighbor.
Whoo, whoo! - then both owls hooted right above the neighboring dovecote. - You heard? You heard? Yes! One hen plucked out all her feathers because of a rooster! She'll freeze, freeze to death! If it's not already cold! Yes!
Chicken chicken! Where? - doves cooed.
In the next yard! It was almost in front of my eyes! It's just indecent to even talk about it, but it's the real truth!
We believe, we believe! - said the pigeons and cooed to the chickens sitting below: - Chickens! One hen, and others say, even two plucked out all their feathers in order to distinguish themselves in front of a rooster! A risky undertaking. That way and catch a cold and die for a short time, but they already died!
Crow! crowed the rooster, flying up the fence. - Wake up! - At the very eyes, they were still stuck together from sleep, and he was already shouting: - Three hens died from an unhappy love for a rooster! They plucked out all their feathers! Such a wicked story! I don't want to be silent about it! Let it spread all over the world!
Let, let! the bats squealed, the hens cackled, the rooster crowed. - Let, let!
And the story spread from yard to yard, from chicken coop to chicken coop, and finally reached the place where it started.
Five hens, - it was said here, - plucked out all their feathers to show which of them was more emaciated from love for a rooster! Then they pecked each other to death, to shame and disgrace to all their kind and to the loss of their masters!
The hen that dropped the feather had no idea that the whole story was about her, and, like a hen in all respects respectable, she said:
I despise those chickens! But there are many of them! However, one cannot remain silent about such things! And I, for my part, will do everything to get this story into the newspapers! Let it spread all over the world - these chickens and their whole family are worth it!
And the newspapers really printed the whole story, and this is the true truth: from one feather it is not at all difficult to make as many as five chickens!
