THERE was once on a time a Fisherman who lived with his wife in a miserable hovel close by the sea, and every day he went out fishing. And once as he ...
IN a certain far-away Tsardom not in this Empire, there lived a Tsar named Vyslav, who had three sons: the first Tsarevitch Dimitri, the second Tsarev...
MANY, many years ago lived an emperor,2 who thought so much of new clothes that he spent all his money in order to obtain them; his only ambition was ...
A SHOEMAKER,2 by no fault of his own, had become so poor that at last he had nothing left but leather for one pair of shoes. So in the evening, he cut...
ONCE upon a time there was a poor husbandman1 who had many children2 and little to give them in the way either of food or clothing.3 They were all pre...
THERE was once upon a time a king who was so much beloved by his subjects that he thought himself the happiest monarch in the whole world, and he had ...
THERE was once upon a time a widow1 who had two daughters.2 The eldest3 was so much like her in the face and humor that whoever looked upon the daught...
ONCE there was a gentleman1 who married, for his second wife, the proudest and most haughty woman that was ever seen. She had, by a former husband, tw...
ONE summer's morning a little tailor2 was sitting on his table by the window; he was in good spirits, and sewed with all his might. Then came a pe...
Once upon a time...There lived a man who had only one son, a lazy, stupid boy, who would never do anything he was told. When the father was dying, he ...