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• 1.THE DROP OF WATER
• OF course you know what is meant by a magnifying glass- one of those round spectacle-glasses that make everything look a hundred times bigger than it ...
• 2.DELAYING IS NOT FORGETTING
• THERE was an old mansion surrounded by a marshy ditch with a drawbridge which was but seldom let down:- not all guests are good people. Under the roof...
• 3.THE DARNING-NEEDLE
• THERE was once a darning-needle who thought herself so fine that she fancied she must be fit for embroidery. Hold me tight, she would say to the finge...
• 4.THE DAISY
• Now listen! In the country, close by the high road, stood a farmhouse; perhaps you have passed by and seen it yourself. There was a little flower gard...
• 5.THE CONCEITED APPLE-BRANCH
• IT was the month of May. The wind still blew cold; but from bush and tree, field and flower, came the welcome sound, Spring is come. Wild-flowers in p...
• 6.CHILDREN'S PRATTLE
• AT a rich merchant's house there was a children's party, and the children of rich and great people were there. The merchant was a learned man, for his...
• 7.THE CHILD IN THE GRAVE
• IT was a very sad day, and every heart in the house felt the deepest grief; for the youngest child, a boy of four years old, the joy and hope of his p...
• 8.A CHEERFUL TEMPER
• FROM my father I received the best inheritance, namely a good temper. And who was my father? That has nothing to do with the good temper; but I will s...
• 9.BY THE ALMSHOUSE WINDOW
• NEAR the grass-covered rampart which encircles Copenhagen lies a great red house. Balsams and other flowers greet us from the long rows of windows in ...
• 10.THE BUTTERFLY
• THERE was once a butterfly who wished for a bride, and, as may be supposed, he wanted to choose a very pretty one from among the flowers. He glanced, ...