THERE was once a girl who trod on a loaf to avoid soilingher shoes, and the misfortunes that happened to her inconsequence are well known. Her name wa...
THERE was once a regular student, who lived in a garret,and had no possessions. And there was also a regular huckster,to whom the house belonged, and ...
THE drummer's wife went into the church. She saw the newaltar with the painted pictures and the carved angels. Thoseupon the canvas and in the glo...
IN a house in Copenhagen, not far from the king's newmarket, a very large party had assembled, the host and hisfamily expecting, no doubt, to rece...
wolf, meeting with a lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the lamb the wolf’...
abatwhofelluponthegroundandwascaughtbyaweaselpleaded tobesparedhislife.theweaselrefused,sayingthathewasby aturetheenemyofallbirds.thebatassuredhimthat...
an ass having heard some grasshoppers chirping, was highly enchanted; and, desiring to possess the same charms of melody, demanded what sort of food t...
a lion was awakened from sleep by a mouse running over his face. rising up angrily, he caught him and was about to kill him, when the mouse piteously ...
the beasts of the field and forest had a lion as their king. he was neither wrathful, cruel, nor tyrannical, but just and gentle as a king could be. d...
a father had a family of sons who were perpetually quarreling among themselves. when he failed to heal their disputes by his exhortations, he determin...