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The shoemaker and the dwarves

A human story in just a few lines for the lesson

By Samara BenPublished 2 years ago 3 min read
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The shoemaker and the dwarves
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A shoemaker lived with his wife in a poor house, and he would buy leather and go to his workshop every day to cut the leather and sew shoes, then sell them in the market, and whatever money he gets, he buys more leather to make shoes.

But the shoemaker wasn't making much money, and he and his wife struggled for a living, and in the end they didn't have the money to buy more leather.

All they had were done and a small piece of leather remained, and the shoemaker looked at it crying, because he knew that this might be the last time he made shoes, so he grabbed the last piece of leather and cut it and decided to complete the work with it tomorrow morning.

He closed the workshop and returned to his house, and the next morning he returned to his workshop, to complete the making of the last shoe, and as soon as he opened the door of the workshop until he found a beautiful and decorated shoe on the table, and the shoemaker wondered how this happened, and he had not completed work on it since yesterday.

But he quickly grabbed the shoe, and went with it to the market and sold it for a large sum, and was able to buy more leather, so he returned to his home happy and told his wife what he had found.

And he went back to finish his work the next day, but the next day he also found those scraps turned into wonderful and beautiful shoes, so he collected them and went to sell them in the market and made more money.

Thus the shoemaker kept cutting the leather and leaving it on the table in the workshop, and in the morning he found beautiful shoes, so he took them and sold them in the market and made more money.

And soon the shoemaker became famous for his beautiful shoes, and the demand for them increased, but he wanted to discover the person who helped him in secret, so he and his wife decided to hide at night in the workshop to wait for that person.

And in the middle of the night two little dwarves jumped out of the shop window, and grabbed the leather, and made beautiful, colorful and decorated shoes. Both dwarves were dressed in old and tattered clothes and worn-out shoes, but they were skilled at making shoes.

And as soon as the two dwarves finished their work, they left from the window, so the shoemaker decided to give them a gift to express his gratitude for their help to him, so he decided to make them new shoes to suit them, and his wife decided to sew new clothes instead of the torn ones.

Indeed, the couple finished making the shoes and clothes for the dwarves, and left them for them on the table, and in the middle of the night the dwarves jumped to the window, but there was no leather to sew, but they were clothes and shoes for them, so they put them on and danced with great happiness.

And the next day the shoe-maker cut the leather, left it on the table and went home, but when he came the next day he found the cut skin as it was, he knew the absence of the two dwarves and returned home sad, but his wife encouraged him to come back he makes the shoes himself as before, and that He works diligently in his work and maintains his fame, and indeed the shoemaker has returned to work in his workshop with all earnestness and diligence.

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Samara Ben

Cooking, Beauty, hair and culture writer. One of Most Influential People in the Multicultural Market.

www.foodzza.com

I am a Creative Writing major I was focused on writing fiction. I have a great passion for writing.

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