German Popular Stories and Fairy TalesGeorge Bell & Sons, 1888 - 306 pages |
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... ( tailpiece ) , SNOWDROP , and HANSEL AND GRETHEL . Most of the others are from the old designs of Geo . Cruikshank ; the whole being now engraved on wood by Byfield . On , the happy , happy season , Ere bright. PREFACE . vii.
... ( tailpiece ) , SNOWDROP , and HANSEL AND GRETHEL . Most of the others are from the old designs of Geo . Cruikshank ; the whole being now engraved on wood by Byfield . On , the happy , happy season , Ere bright. PREFACE . vii.
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... whole household . It happened that the eldest son took it into his head one day to go into the wood to cut fuel ; and his mother gave him a nice pasty and a bottle of wine to take with him , that he might refresh himself at his work ...
... whole household . It happened that the eldest son took it into his head one day to go into the wood to cut fuel ; and his mother gave him a nice pasty and a bottle of wine to take with him , that he might refresh himself at his work ...
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... whole bird . " Then the gardener's eldest son set out to find this golden bird , and thought to find it very easily ; and when he had gone but a little way , he came to a wood , and by the side of the wood he saw a fox sitting . The lad ...
... whole bird . " Then the gardener's eldest son set out to find this golden bird , and thought to find it very easily ; and when he had gone but a little way , he came to a wood , and by the side of the wood he saw a fox sitting . The lad ...
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... whole troop of sol- diers fast asleep and snoring ; take no notice of them , but go into the castle , and pass on and on till you come to a room where the golden bird sits in a wooden cage : close by it stands a beautiful golden cage ...
... whole troop of sol- diers fast asleep and snoring ; take no notice of them , but go into the castle , and pass on and on till you come to a room where the golden bird sits in a wooden cage : close by it stands a beautiful golden cage ...
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... 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 have taken it away : and when THE FOX'S BRUSH . 19.
... 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 have taken it away : and when THE FOX'S BRUSH . 19.
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