have you ever seen a very old chest, black with age, and covered with outlandish carved ornaments and curling leaves? well, in a certain parlor there was just such a chest, handed down from some great...
in the narrow streets of a large town people often heard in the evening, when the sun was setting, and his last rays gave a golden tint to the chimney-pots, a strange noise which resembled the sound o...
very often, after a violent thunder-storm, a field of buckwheat appears blackened and singed, as if a flame of fire had passed over it. the country people say that this appearance is caused by lightni...
once there was a poor prince. he had a kingdom; it was very tiny. still it was large enough to marry upon, and on marriage his heart was set.now it was certainly rather bold of him to say, "will you ....
through all the songs of the east, the eternal theme is the nightingale's love for the rose. in the silent, starlit nights, the winged songster sings his serenade to his beautiful scented flower.unde....
we've recently made a little journey, and already we want to make a longer one. where? to sparta, or mycenae, or delphi? there are hundreds of places whose names make the heart pound with the love of....
in the city of florence, not far from the piazza del granduca, there is a little cross street which i think is called porta rossa. in front of a sort of market in this street, where vegetables are sol...
on the roof of the last house in a little village was a stork's nest. the mother stork sat in it with her four young ones, who stuck out their heads with their little black beaks. (you see, their bea....
far away in the land to which the swallows fly when it is winter, dwelt a king who had eleven sons, and one daughter, named eliza. the eleven brothers were princes, and each went to school with a star...
now listen! in the country, close by the high road, stood a farmhouse; perhaps you have passed by and seen it yourself. there was a little flower garden with painted wooden palings in front of it; clo...
