The Valiant Little Tailor (Unabridged)

"The Valiant Little Tailor" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 20. Joseph Jacobs collected another variant «A Dozen at One Blow» in European Folk and Fairy Tales. A tailor is preparing to eat some jam, but when flies settle on it, he kills seven of them with one blow of his hand. He makes a belt describing the deed, reading «Seven at One Blow». Inspired, he sets out into the world to seek his fortune. The tailor meets a giant who assumes that «Seven at One Blow» refers to seven men. The giant challenges the tailor. When the giant squeezes water from a boulder, the tailor squeezes milk, or whey, from cheese. The giant throws a rock far…