there was a large party for children at the house of the merchant; rich people's children and important people's children were all there. their host, the merchant, was a learned man; his father had .....
once there were two cocks, one on a dunghill and one on the roof, both of them conceited; but which of the two did the most? tell us what you think - we'll keep our own opinion, anyway.the chicken ya....
“in the world it's always going up and down; and now i can't go up any higher!” so said ole the tower-keeper. “most people have to try both the ups and the downs; and, rightly considered, we all .....
the storks tell many, many stories to their young ones, all about the bogs and marshes. in general each story is suited to the age and sense of the little storks. while the youngest ones are satisfied...
once there was a man who had written some new rhymes for the a-b-c book - two lines for each letter, just as in the old a-b-c book. he believed the old rhymes were too antiquated, that something new w...
there is a street in copenhagen with a very strange name. it is called “hysken” street. where the name came from, and what it means is very uncertain. it is said to be german, but that is unjust to ...
i. soup from a sausage peg"that was a perfectly delightful dinner yesterday," one old female mouse told another, who had not attended the feast. "i sat number twenty-one from the old mouse king, wh...
you know the story of holger danske, so we won't repeat it, but will ask you if you remember how "holger danske conquered the great land of india, eastward at the end of the world, to the tree calle.....
in the narrow, crooked street, among several shabby dwellings, stood a very tall and very narrow house, the framework of which had given so that it was out of joint in every direction. only poor peopl...
among the other children in the charity school was a little jewish girl, clever and good-in fact, the brightest of them all. but there was one class she could not attend, the one where religion was ta...
