Chapter Five Our train left Grand Central Station at two o’clock next afternoon; it was bitter cold, I remember, and I drove to the station, smothered...

Chapter Three The nice young man did more than find my missing trunks; he found a custom-house officer, and, after asking me privately which trunks co...

By Edward Salisbury Field Chapter One If Dad had been a coal baron, like Mr. Tudor Carstairs, or a stock- watering captain of industry, like Mrs. Sand...

Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grim There were two brothers who were both soldiers; the one was rich and the other poor. The poor man thought he would tr...

Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grim There was once upon a time a soldier who for many years had served the king faithfully, but when the war came to an e...

There was once upon a time a queen to whom God had given no children. Every morning she went into the garden and prayed to God in heaven to bestow on ...

There was a king who had twelve beautiful daughters. They slept in twelve beds all in one room; and when they went to bed, the doors were shut and loc...

’Bird,’ he said, ’how beautifully you sing! Sing me that song again.’ ’Nay,’ said the bird, ’I do not sing twice for nothing. Give that gold chain, an...

The Juniper-Tree Long, long ago, some two thousand years or so, there lived a rich man with a good and beautiful wife. They loved each other dearly, b...

Clever Hans The mother of Hans said: ’Whither away, Hans?’ Hans answered: ’To Gretel.’ ’Behave well, Hans.’ ’Oh, I’ll behave well. Goodbye, mother.’ ’...