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Hans Gets Married

"No indeed," said the mother, "she can see the wind coming up the street and hear the flies cough."

There were once a man and a woman who had an only child, and lived quite alone in a solitary valley.

At length he chased the stag so far that they were quite out of the forest, and then suddenly a great tall man was standing there instead of the stag, and said, "It is well that I have thee, I have already ruined six pairs of glass skates with running after thee, and have not been able to get thee."

A young drummer went out alone one evening into the country, and came to a lake on the shore of which he perceived three pieces of white linen lying.

Once upon a time there lived a King who had a great forest near his palace, full of all kinds of wild animals.

A tailor's apprentice was traveling about the world in search of work, and at one time he could find none, and his poverty was so great that he had not a penny to live on.

By means of this, everything could very well be seen and distinguished, even though it was not so brilliant as the sun.

A father was one day sitting at dinner with his wife and children, and a good friend who had come on a visit was with them.