Fairytales of Famous Authors Compared to Disney Cartoons with proper respect etc

Story 76: The Elves and The Shoemaker (Americanized Version)

The Brothers' Grimm version called Elves and they are actually three stories in and each one differs.
Their The Elves and the Shokemaker lasts about one page while the one below  lasts maybe 3 pages since I am not including illustrations as they're a bit inappropriate like I omitted the illustrations that went with The Emperor's New Clothes too. ––Lumna10 enjoy, Skylights!

The Elves and the Shokemaker Author Anonymous

There was once a shoemaker who became poorer and poorer as the years went by. At last he had leather enough only for one pair of shocs in the evening he cut out the patter and the he went to sleep.
The nest moming he took up a needle and thread, meaning no sew the shoes. But there they stood, neatly sewn and finished an has table. The shoemaker could not believe his eyes. Not a stitch was out of place and the work was better than any he had ever seen.
As he held the shoes, marveling at them, a customer entered the shop. He was so pleased with the shoes that he paid far more than the ordinary price, and the shoemaker was able to buy leather for two pairs more.
He cut them out in the evening, and the next morning prepared to begin work. But there was no need for it because the shoes had already been made and were as well stitched and handsome as the other pair. The first two customers who came into his shop bought them for a good price. And this time the shoemaker was able to buy leather enough for four pairs.
Early the next morning the four pairs of shoes were finished as before. And so it went. What the shoemaker cut out at night was finished in the morning, and customers were never lacking.
Soon the shoemaker became a wealthy man.
Always he wondered about the skill of the work, and one tening not long before Christmas he said to his wife, "How would it be if we were to sit up tonight to see who has been helping us these many months?"
She agreed at once and so they did not go to bed, but lit a candle and hid themselves in a corner of the room. Just at midnight two tiny little men came and sat down at the shoemaker's table. They wore no clothes and said not a single word, but immediately began to work. They stitched and hammered and sewed so neatly and quickly that the shoemaker was amazed. As soon as everything was finished and stood upon the table, they ran quickly away.

"The little men have made us rich and I think we ought to thank them," said the shoemaker's wife in the morning. "They ran about with nothing on and must freeze with cold. Now I shall sew them tiny shirts and pants and coats and knit them caps and socks. And you must make them each a pair of shoes." The shoemaker and his wife worked hard all day and had everything ready by evening. Then they hid themselves to see how the little men would receive their presents.
At midnight the two came back into the room and sat down at the table. But instead of the leather cut out and waiting, they found the wonderful little clothes.
First the little men were surprised and then they were delighted. They put on the shirts and pants, the coats and socks and caps, and they buckled the tiny shoes upon their feet. When they were done they ran their hands up and down the pretty clothes and admired each other, singing:
"Now that we're boys so fine and neat,
Why cobble more for others' feet?"
They hopped and danced about the shoemaker's shop, leaping over chairs and tables and then out the door. From this night on the two little men came back no more, but the shoemaker continued to do well as long as he lived and had good luck in all he attempted.