German Popular Stories and Fairy TalesGeorge Bell & Sons, 1888 - 306 pages |
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... ment , " craving thy kind acceptance , I wish thee as much willingness to the reading , as I have been forward in the printing and so I end , -Farewell . " EVENING THE FIRST . THE GOLDEN GOOSE . * THERE xii GAMMER GRETHEL .
... ment , " craving thy kind acceptance , I wish thee as much willingness to the reading , as I have been forward in the printing and so I end , -Farewell . " EVENING THE FIRST . THE GOLDEN GOOSE . * THERE xii GAMMER GRETHEL .
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... thee ! " Then the fish came swimming to him , and said , " Well , what is her will ? what does your wife want ? " " Ah ! " said the fisherman , " she says that when I had caught you , I ought to have asked you for something before I let ...
... thee ! " Then the fish came swimming to him , and said , " Well , what is her will ? what does your wife want ? " " Ah ! " said the fisherman , " she says that when I had caught you , I ought to have asked you for something before I let ...
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... thee ! " " Well , what does she want now ? " said the fish . " Ah ! " said the man , dolefully , " my wife wants to live in a stone castle . " " Go home , then , " said the fish ; " she is standing at the gate of it already . " So away ...
... thee ! " " Well , what does she want now ? " said the fish . " Ah ! " said the man , dolefully , " my wife wants to live in a stone castle . " " Go home , then , " said the fish ; " she is standing at the gate of it already . " So away ...
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... waves and ridges of foam as he cried out , - " O man of the sea ! Hearken to me ! My wife Ilsabill Will have her own will , And hath sent me to beg a boon of thee ! " " Well , what would she have now ? " THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE . 9.
... waves and ridges of foam as he cried out , - " O man of the sea ! Hearken to me ! My wife Ilsabill Will have her own will , And hath sent me to beg a boon of thee ! " " Well , what would she have now ? " THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE . 9.
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... thee ! " " What would she have now ? " said the fish . " Ah ! " said the fisherman , " she wants to be emperor . " " Go home , " said the fish ; " she is emperor already . " So he went home again ; and as he came near he saw his wife ...
... thee ! " " What would she have now ? " said the fish . " Ah ! " said the fisherman , " she wants to be emperor . " " Go home , " said the fish ; " she is emperor already . " So he went home again ; and as he came near he saw his wife ...
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