A hedge of hazel-nut bushes encircled the garden; without was field and meadow, with cows and sheep; but in the centre of the garden s...

A large star beams in the dawn of morning in the red sky--the clearest star of the morning--its rays tremble upon the white wall, as i...

The butterfly wished to procure a bride for himself--of course, one of the flowers--a pretty little one. He looked about him. Each one...

Far out in the ocean the water is as blue as the petals of the loveliest cornflower, and as clear as the purest glass. But it is very ...

THERE were once five-and-twenty tin soldiers, who were all brothers, for they had been made out of the same old tin spoon. They shouldered...

IT was lovely summer weather in the country, and the golden corn, the green oats, and the haystacks piled up in the meadows looked beautif...

THERE was once a sculptor, named Alfred, who having won the large gold medal and obtained a travelling scholarship, went to Italy, and the...

There was once a little girl who was very pretty and delicate, but in summer she was forced to run about with bare feet, she was so poor, ...

Along time ago, there lived an old poet, a thoroughly kind old poet. As he was sitting one evening in his room, a dreadful storm arose wit...

Ah! yes, that was little Tuk: in reality his name was not Tuk, but that was what he called himself before he could speak plain: he meant i...

Most terribly cold it was; it snowed, and was nearly quite dark, and evening-- the last evening of the year. In this cold and darkness the...

It is in the hot lands that the sun burns, sure enough! there the people become quite a mahogany brown, ay, and in the hottest lands they ...

There was once a fine gentleman, all of whose moveables were a boot-jack and a hair-comb: but he had the finest false collars in the world...

A mother sat there with her little child. She was so downcast, so afraid that it should die! It was so pale, the small eyes had closed the...

Really, the largest green leaf in this country is a dockleaf; if one holds it before one, it is like a whole apron, and if one holds it ov...

In the street, up there, was an old, a very old house-it was almost three hundred years old, for that might be known by reading the great ...

People said "The Evening Bell is sounding, the sun is setting." For a strange wondrous tone was heard in the narrow streets of a...

Once upon a time there was a little boy who had taken cold. He had gone out and got his feet wet; though nobody could imagine how it had h...

A Flea, a Grasshopper, and a Leap-frog once wanted to see which could jump highest; and they invited the whole world, and everybody else b...

FIRST STORY. Which Treats of a Mirror and of the Splinters Now then, let us begin. When we are at the end of the story, we shall know ...