German Popular Stories and Fairy TalesGeorge Bell & Sons, 1888 - 306 pages |
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... lived , though under a different name . She was the Frau Viehmännin , the wife of a peasant in the neighbourhood of Hesse - Cassel , and from her mouth a great portion of the stories were written down by MM . Grimm . She died not long ...
... lived , though under a different name . She was the Frau Viehmännin , the wife of a peasant in the neighbourhood of Hesse - Cassel , and from her mouth a great portion of the stories were written down by MM . Grimm . She died not long ...
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... lived far off in Germany . She knew all the good stories that were told in that country ; and every evening about Christmas time the boys and girls of the neighbourhood gathered round her to hear her tell them some of her budget of ...
... lived far off in Germany . She knew all the good stories that were told in that country ; and every evening about Christmas time the boys and girls of the neighbourhood gathered round her to hear her tell them some of her budget of ...
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... lived long and happily with his wife . But what became of the goose and the goose's tail , I never could hear . THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE . * THERE was once a fisherman who lived with his wife in a pigstye , close by the sea - side ...
... lived long and happily with his wife . But what became of the goose and the goose's tail , I never could hear . THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE . * THERE was once a fisherman who lived with his wife in a pigstye , close by the sea - side ...
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... lived in that castle . And the king said , " You shall never have my daughter , unless in eight days you dig away the hill that stops the view from my window . " Now this hill was so big that all the men in the whole world could not ...
... lived in that castle . And the king said , " You shall never have my daughter , unless in eight days you dig away the hill that stops the view from my window . " Now this hill was so big that all the men in the whole world could not ...
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... lived happily together all their lives long . FRITZ AND HIS FRIENDS . * HONEST Fritz had worked hard all his life , but ill luck befell him ; his cattle died , his barns were burned , and he lost almost all his money . So at last he ...
... lived happily together all their lives long . FRITZ AND HIS FRIENDS . * HONEST Fritz had worked hard all his life , but ill luck befell him ; his cattle died , his barns were burned , and he lost almost all his money . So at last he ...
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