VERY often, after a violent thunder-storm, a field ofbuckwheat appears blackened and singed, as if a flame of firehad passed over it. The country peop...
THERE were once five-and-twenty tin soldiers, who were allbrothers, for they had been made out of the same old tinspoon. They shouldered arms and look...
THERE was once a butterfly who wished for a bride, and, asmay be supposed, he wanted to choose a very pretty one fromamong the flowers. He glanced, wi...
NEAR the grass-covered rampart which encircles Copenhagenlies a great red house. Balsams and other flowers greet usfrom the long rows of windows in th...
FROM my father I received the best inheritance, namely a"good temper." "And who was my father?" That has nothing to dowith the goo...
IT was a very sad day, and every heart in the house feltthe deepest grief; for the youngest child, a boy of four yearsold, the joy and hope of his par...
AT a rich merchant's house there was a children's party,and the children of rich and great people were there. Themerchant was a learned man, f...
IT was the month of May. The wind still blew cold; butfrom bush and tree, field and flower, came the welcome sound,"Spring is come." Wild-fl...
Now listen! In the country, close by the high road, stooda farmhouse; perhaps you have passed by and seen it yourself.There was a little flower garden...
THERE was once a darning-needle who thought herself sofine that she fancied she must be fit for embroidery. "Hold metight," she would say to...