Once upon a time...There was once a lad who went to look for a place. As he went along he met a man, who asked him where he was going. He told him his...
Once upon a time...Several hundreds of years ago there lived in a forest a wood- cutter and his wife and children. He was very poor, having only his a...
Once upon a time...Far way, in a very hot country, there once lived a man and woman who had two children, a son named Koane and a daughter called Thak...
Once upon a time...A long time ago there lived a young prince whose favourite playfellow was the son of the gardener who lived in the grounds of the p...
Once upon a time...An old woman lived in a small cottage near the sea with her two daughters. They were very poor, and the girls seldom left the house...
Once upon a time...There lived in Japan a rat and his wife who came of an old and noble race, and had one daughter, the loveliest girl in all the rat ...
Once upon a time...There lived a king who was so fond of wine that he could not go to sleep unless he knew he had a great flaskful tied to his bed-pos...
Once upon a time...Somewhere or other, but I don't know where, there lived a king who owned two remarkably fine fields of rape, but every night tw...
Once upon a time...There lived a princess who was so beautiful and so good that everybody loved her. Her father could hardly bear her out of his sight...
Once upon a time...The things in this story happened, and if they had not happened then the story would never have been told. But that was the time wh...