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THERE was an old mansion surrounded by a marshy ditch witha drawbridge which was but seldom let down:- not all guestsare good people. Under the roof w...

OF course you know what is meant by a magnifying glass-one of those round spectacle-glasses that make everything looka hundred times bigger than it is...

WE are travelling to Paris to the Exhibition. Now we are there. That was a journey, a flight withoutmagic. We flew on the wings of steam over the sea ...

IN the high-road which led through a wood stood a solitaryfarm-house; the road, in fact, ran right through its yard. Thesun was shining and all the wi...

IN the midst of a garden grew a rose-tree, in fullblossom, and in the prettiest of all the roses lived an elf.He was such a little wee thing, that no ...

A FEW large lizards were running nimbly about in theclefts of an old tree; they could understand one another verywell, for they spoke the lizard langu...

MANY, many years ago lived an emperor, who thought so muchof new clothes that he spent all his money in order to obtainthem; his only ambition was to ...

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...

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...

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...