One day a peasant took his good hazel-stick out of the corner and said to his wife, "Trina, I am going across country, and shall not return for t...
There was once a little child whose mother gave her every afternoon a small bowl of milk and bread, and the child seated herself in the yard with it. ...
In a certain mill lived an old miller who had neither wife nor child, and three apprentices served under him. As they had been with him several years,...
Hill and vale do not come together, but the children of men do, good and bad. In this way a shoemaker and a tailor once met with each other in their t...
There was once a countryman who had money and land in plenty, but how rich soever he was, one thing was still wanting in his happiness he had no child...
There was once a mother who had a little boy of seven years old, who was so handsome and lovable that no one could look at him without liking him, and...
There was once a rich man, who had a servant who served him diligently and honestly: He was every morning the first out of bed, and the last to go to ...
A countryman was once going out to plough with a pair of oxen. When he got to the field, both the animals' horns began to grow, and went on growin...
There was once on a time a King who had a little boy of whom it had been foretold that he should be killed by a stag when he was sixteen years of age,...
There was once on a time a princess who was extremely proud. If a wooer(求爱者) came she gave him some riddle to guess, and if he could not find it out, ...