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A man and his wife were once sitting by the door of their house, and they had a roasted chicken set before them and were…

It happened once upon a time, in the olden days that a young man, Periander of Corinth, started from a port in the south of…

“It is so delightfully cold,” said the Snow Man, “that it makes my whole body crackle. This is just the kind of wind to blow…

One evening, in times long ago, old Philemon and his old wife Baucis sat at their cottage door, enjoying the calm and beautiful sunset. They…

Hill and vale do not come together, but the children of men do, good and bad. In this way, a shoemaker and a tailor once…

A Memorable Day in my Life The day was hot and sunny. I was lying in the front yard on my back when my mother…

There was once on a time a King who had a little boy of whom it had been foretold that he should be killed by…

In the thick of a jungle, a little boy is playing with wolf cubs. The mother wolf is there. She says to the little boy,…

There were once upon a time two brothers, one rich and the other poor. The rich one was a goldsmith and evil-hearted. The poor one…

Long ago, in England in Sherwood Forest lives Robin Hood. As a boy, Robin had been cheated by a few noblemen and since then he…

One stormy night at sea, a ship was wrecked. All the passengers on board drowned, except Lemuel Gulliver. Gulliver was an excellent swimmer and swam…

There was once a fine gentleman who possessed among other things a boot-jack and a hair-brush, but he had also the finest shirt-collar in the…