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A long time ago a little town made up of a collection of low huts stood in a tiny green valley at the foot of a cliff. Of course the people had taken great care to build their houses out of reach of the highest tide which might be driven on shore by a west wind, but on the very edge of...

  There was once a king and a queen who had three wonderfully beautiful daughters, and their one thought, from morning till night, was how they could make the girls happy. One day the princesses said to the king, ‘Dear father, we want so much to have a picnic, and...

Once upon a time there was an old man, he was about a hundred years old. He had an old wife and they lived happily. One day he came to his wife and asked some money. He said that he wanted to go out and try to find their son. Then the old man took a bag and filled it with food and money, and throwing...

The studies in this volume originally appeared in the “St. James's Gazette. ” Two, from a friendly hand, have been omitted here by the author of the rest, as non sua poma. One was by Mr. RICHARD SWIVELLER to a boon companion and brother in the lyric Apollo; the other, though purporting to have been...

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. The studies in this volume originally appeared in the "St....

Once upon a time in a certain kingdom was a king who had only one son. When his son was about eighteen years old, his father had to go to fight in a war against a neighbouring country, and the king led his troops in person. The son became the vice-king, but his father ordered him that he must not...

Once upon a time there lived an old man who had only one son, whom he loved dearly; but they were very poor, and often had scarcely enough to eat...   

Caliph Chasid, of Bagdad, was resting comfortably on his divan one fine afternoon. He was smoking a long pipe, and from time to time he sipped a little coffee which a slave handed to him, and after each sip he stroked his long beard with an air of enjoyment. In short, anyone could see that the...

Once upon a time there was an imbecile who had no parents, so kind village people gave him food and took care about him. Once upon a time he leaved his village and went to the magic castle. The aim of his journey was to seek the basin of gold and the lance of diamonds, which were in the castle… Could he find the way to the castle? What adventures did he face? Read the story to know!

May life that's fleet be sweet, I pray,

Instances perpetually occur in the Sagas: Grettir, Egil, Skarphedin, are always singing. InKidnapped, Mr. Stevenson introduces “The Song of the Sword of Alan,” a fine example of Celtic practice: words and air are beaten out together, in the heat of victory. In the same way, the women sang improvised...

Literary detective work, trying to determine the intended ending of Dickens' last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

There were two little houses, near the border of a forest. Hunter, his wife and children lived in that houses. Children were forbidden to play more than a short distance from the door, as it was known that, away on the other side of the wood near the great river, there dwelt a witch who had a magic...