There are many persons who differ in their account of this p

Everything turned out as Little Thumbling had expected. The ogre awoke at midnight, and regretted having put off till the...

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Everything turned out as Little Thumbling had expected

Once upon a time there was a woodcutter and his wife who had seven children, all boys. The eldest1 was but ten years old,...

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Tell your master," replied the King, "that I thank

A miller1 bequeathed to his three sons all he possessed2 of worldly goods, which consisted only of his Mill, his Ass3, an...

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Provided one has common sense,

She flung herself at her husbands feet, weeping and begging his pardon, with all the signs of a true repentance14 at havi...

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Blue Beard returned that very evening, and said that he had

At first she could distinguish nothing, for the windows were closed; in a few minutes, however, she began to see that the...

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The daylight sank deeper and deeper into the darkness, and t

I PACED alone on the road across the field while the sunset was hiding its last gold like a miser1. The daylight sank dee...

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And he kissed my forehead, and gently put me out and closed

My father beckoned48 me into the study one day, and said he You ought not to give poor Madame so much pain. She is one of...

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Some fishing questions, dropped from time to time, fared no

THE FRIGHTFUL1 warnings of Lady Knollys haunted me too. Was there no escape from the dreadful companion whom fate had ass...

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