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Many many years ago lived an emperor, who thought so much of new clothes that he spent all his money in order to obtain them; his only ambition was to...

T was lovely summer weather in the country, and the golden corn, the green oats, and the haystacks piled up in the meadows looked beautiful. The stork...

NCE upon a time there was little girl, pretty and dainty. But in summer time she was obliged to go barefooted because she was poor, and in winter she ...

HERE was once a fine gentleman who possessed among other things a boot-jack and a hair-brush; but he had also the finest shirt-collar in the world, an...

HE Flea, the Grasshopper, and the Skipjack1 once wanted to see which of them could jump highest; and they invited the whole world, and whoever else wo...

Here were once five peas in one shell, they were green, the shell was green, and so they believed that the whole world must be green also, which was a...

EAR the shores of the great Belt, which is one of the straits that connect the Cattegat with the Baltic, stands an old mansion with thick red walls. I...

HERE was once a butterfly who wished for a bride, and, as may be supposed, he wanted to choose a very pretty one from among the flowers. He glanced, w...

THERE were two cocks- one on the dung-hill, the other onthe roof. They were both arrogant, but which of the tworendered most service? Tell us your opi...

IT is more than a hundred years ago! At the border of thewood, near a large lake, stood the old mansion: deep ditchessurrounded it on every side, in w...