Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales. Second Series

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Hans Christian Andersen. Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales. Second Series

PREFACE

THE FLAX

THE DAISY

THE PEA BLOSSOM

THE STORKS

THE WILD SWANS

THE LAST DREAM OF THE OLD OAK

THE PORTUGUESE DUCK

THE SNOW MAN

THE FARMYARD COCK AND THE WEATHERCOCK

THE RED SHOES

THE LITTLE MERMAID

BUCKWHEAT

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE THISTLE

THE PEN AND THE INKSTAND

THE TEAPOT

SOUP FROM A SAUSAGE SKEWER

WHAT THE GOODMAN DOES IS ALWAYS RIGHT

THE OLD STREET LAMP

THE SHEPHERDESS AND THE CHIMNEY SWEEP

THE DROP OF WATER

THE SWINEHERD

THE METAL PIG

THE FLYING TRUNK

THE BUTTERFLY

THE GOBLIN AND THE HUCKSTER

EVERYTHING IN ITS RIGHT PLACE

THE REAL PRINCESS

THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES

GREAT CLAUS AND LITTLE CLAUS

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THE flax was in full bloom; it had pretty little blue flowers, as delicate as the wings of a moth. The sun shone on it and the showers watered it; and this was as good for the flax as it is for little children to be washed and then kissed by their mothers. They look much prettier for it, and so did the flax.

"People say that I look exceedingly well," said the flax, "and that I am so fine and long that I shall make a beautiful piece of linen. How fortunate I am! It makes me so happy to know that something can be made of me. How the sunshine cheers me, and how sweet and refreshing is the rain! My happiness overpowers me; no one in the world can feel happier than I."

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"Now," said they, "we will be revenged."

"Yes, certainly," said their mother; "and I have thought of a way that will surely be the fairest. I know a pond where all the little human children lie till the stork comes to take them to their parents. There lie the pretty little babies, dreaming more sweetly than they ever dream afterwards. All the parents are wishing for one of these little ones, and the children all want a sister or a brother. Now we'll fly to the pond and bring back a baby for every child who did not sing the naughty song that made game of the storks."

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