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- Tales and Fairy Stories, Tr. by Mme De Chatelain
Tales and Fairy Stories Tr by Mme De Chatelain
Author:
Hans Christian Andersen
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1852 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book
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s for free. Excerpt: What things the people did say to be sure! Every one whom he questioned had seen the show through his own medium, but they all thought it beautiful. " I saw the Turkish god's own self," said one. " His eyes were like beaming stars, and his beard like foaming water." " He flew in a fiery mantle," said another, " the loveliest cherubs peeped out from amongst its folds." Yes, he heard mighty fine things ; and the next day he was to be married. He now returned to the wood to sit in his trunk -- but where was it ? The trunk was burned. A spark from the fire-works had remained behind, so the trunk had caught fire and had been reduced to ashes. He could not fly any more, nor go to meet his bride. She stood on the roof, and waited the whole day long, and most likely is waiting there still. Meanwhile, he wanders through the world, and tells stories, but none of them are so amusing as the one he told about the matches. ©to Stmt-f amp. Did you ever hear the story of the old street-lamp1 Not that it is so very entertaining either, only it may bear to be heard just once. There was a most respectable old lamp, who, after many, many years of active service, was now about to be cashiered. She now stood at her post for the last time, and lit up the street with feelings very nearly akin to those of some aged figurante dancing for the last time, with the prospect of being consigned to oblivion the next day in her garret. The lamp was very uneasy about the morrow, for she knew that shewould have to make her appearance at the town-hall, and be examined by the burgomaster and the council, to see whether she were sti...
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1143473779
Publication Date:
2/3/2010
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