日期：2013-06-08 Two or three hundred years ago, when people were far from being so crafty（狡猾的） and cunning as they are now-a-day, an extraordinary event took place in a little town. By some mischance one of the great owls, called horned owls, had come from the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-06-08 In days gone by there was a land where the nights were always dark, and the sky spread over it like a black cloth, for there the moon never rose, and no star shone in the obscurity（朦胧，阴暗） . At the creation of the world, the light at night had... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-06-08 In ancient times a giant was once travelling on a great highway, when suddenly an unknown man sprang up before him, and said, Halt, not one step farther! What! cried the giant, a creature whom I can crush between my fingers, wants to block my way? W... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-05-29 Within the memory of the youngest child there was a family of rabbits who lived near a pack of wolves. The wolves announced that they did not like the way the rabbits were living. (The wolves were crazy about the way they themselves were living, bec... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-05-27 A man, a great man, a fighter for freedom was traveling in the mountains. He stayed in a caravans（有篷的车辆） for the night. He was amazed that in the caravans there was a beautiful parrot in a golden cage, continually repeating Freedom! Freedom!.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-05-17 Todd's uncle Johnson always kept lots of garlic at home and there was a cross in every corner of his house, even his fence was made up of crosses and there was a big cross on top of his roof, just like a church. Just across the road from his home wa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-05-17 It was a sunny Fall day, crisp and blue and gold. Kevin and his friend Katie climbed onto the school bus, heading for the Pumpkin Patch. They sat on the back bench and had fun bouncing around. But Katie was grumpy（脾气暴躁的） . She didn't want to... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-05-14 Pencil: You know, I'm really sorry. Eraser: For what? You didn't do anything wrong. Pencil: I'm sorry, 'cause you get hurt because of me. Whenever I make a mistake, you are always there to erase it. But as you make my mistakes vanish, you lose a par... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-04-25 A certain tailor who was great at boasting but ill at doing, took it into his head to go abroad for a while, and look about the world. As soon as he could manage it, he left his workshop, and wandered on his way, over hill and dale（山谷） , sometim... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-04-25 There was once a poor shepherd-boy whose father and mother were dead, and he was placed by the authorities in the house of a rich man, who was to feed him and bring him up. The man and his wife, had however, bad hearts, and were greedy and anxious a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-04-25 One Sunday morning about harvest time, just as the buckwheat（荞麦） was in bloom, the sun was shining brightly in heaven, the east wind was blowing warmly over the stubble-fields, the larks（云雀） were singing in the air, the bees buzzing among th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-03-27 There was once a girl whose father and mother died while she was still a little child. All alone, in a small house at the end of the village, dwelt her godmother, who supported herself by spinning, weaving, and sewing. The old woman took the forlorn... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-03-27 There was once on a time a far-sighted, crafty（狡猾的） peasant whose tricks were much talked about. The best story is, however, how he once got hold of the Devil, and made a fool of him. The peasant had one day been working in his field, and as tw... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-03-27 A countryman one day said to his little puppies, Come into the parlour（客厅） and enjoy yourselves, and pick up the bread-crumbs on the table; your mistress has gone out to pay some visits. Then the little dogs said, No, no, we will not go. If the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-03-27 There was once upon a time a princess, who, high under the battlements in her castle, had an apartment with twelve windows, which looked out in every possible direction, and when she climbed up to it and looked around her, she could inspect her whol... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-03-27 In former times, when God himself still walked the earth, the fruitfulness of the soil was much greater than it is now; then the ears of corn did not bear fifty or sixty, but four or five hundred-fold. Then the corn grew from the bottom to the very... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-03-27 A rich farmer was one day standing in his yard inspecting his fields and gardens. The corn was growing up vigorously and the fruit-trees were heavily laden with fruit. The grain of the year before still lay in such immense heaps on the floors that t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-03-27 There was once on a time a King who had a daughter, and he caused a glass mountain to be made, and said that whosoever could cross to the other side of it without falling should have his daughter to wife. Then there was one who loved the King's daug... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-03-27 There was once an enchantress（女巫，妖妇） , who had three sons who loved each other as brothers, but the old woman did not trust them, and thought they wanted to steal her power from her. So she changed the eldest into an eagle, which was forced t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-03-22 In the winter time, when deep snow lay on the ground, a poor boy was forced to go out on a sledge（雪橇） to fetch wood. When he had gathered it together, and packed it, he wished, as he was so frozen with cold, not to go home at once, but to light... 阅读全文>>