Andersen’s Fairy Tales

standing there with the dust-box. At the same moment came someone who embraced me.’ ‘‘Yes; but you gave him a good box on his ea ...

their grand-children; for they knew well enough that it was the day of the fiftieth anniversary, and had come with their gratula ...

aerial dwelling, and it flew with them through the air. Oh, it was wondrous beautiful! Old Nanny had grown all of a sudden a you ...

you see the farm-house yonder? And there is an Elder Tree standing beside it; and the cock is scraping away the earth for the he ...

And during their whole flight the Elder Tree smelt so sweet and odorous; he remarked the roses and the fresh beeches, but the El ...

‘It is lovely here in autumn!’ said the little maiden. And suddenly the atmosphere grew as blue again as before; the forest grew ...

under which the old seaman in the New Booths had sailed. And the boy grew up to be a lad, and was to go forth in the wide world- ...

her hair, and kissed them. First, they shone like silver, then like gold; and when they laid them on the heads of the old people ...

man, who had been talking, was just on the point of going out at the door, and he did go. ‘How splendid that was!’ said the litt ...

was as if the tones came from a church in the still forest; people looked thitherward, and felt their minds attuned most solemnl ...

and that no melody was sweeter than the tones of the bell. The king of the country was also observant of it, and vowed that he w ...

towards them the sounds of the unknown bell with wonderful distinctness. They all immediately felt a wish to go thither; all exc ...

said, ‘Now we are there! In reality the bell does not exist; it is only a fancy that people have taken into their heads!’ At the ...

the bell was too small and too fine to be heard at so great a distance, and besides it was very different tones to those that co ...

‘Why, then, we can go together,’ said the King’s Son. But the poor child that had been confirmed was quite ashamed; he looked at ...

looked exactly like large soapbubbles: so only think how the trees must have sparkled in the sunshine! Around the nicest green m ...

The sea—the great, the glorious sea, that dashed its long waves against the coast—was stretched out before him. And yonder, wher ...

known by reading the great beam on which the date of the year was carved: together with tulips and hop-binds there were whole ve ...

liked the old house best, and that both in sunshine and moonshine. And when he looked across at the wall where the mortar had fa ...

‘I say, master! will you give this to the old man over the way from me? I have two pewter soldiers—this is one of them, and he s ...