日期:2008-11-18 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; and it is about one of these collars that we are now to hear a story. 从前有一位漂亮的绅士;他所有的动产只是... 阅读全文>> 日期:2008-11-18 It happened that the cat met Mr. Fox in the woods. She thought, He is intelligent and well experienced, and is highly regarded in the world, so she spoke to him in a friendly manner, Good-day, my dear Mr. Fox. How is it going? How are you? How are y... 阅读全文>> 日期:2008-10-13 Characters: Cinderella; Stepmother; Stepsister 1; Stepsister2; Godmother; Prince; Guard (Duke). Birdies and the mice. (Both two children) Act 1 Once upon a time there lived a kind and lovely girl. She was so kind even to the mice, and the birdies ar... 阅读全文>> 日期:2008-10-13 Mrs. Hellen had a very clever dog named Black. He often helped her by going to buy bread. One morning she gave him a basket with twenty cents in it and told him to go to the bakery and get two loaves of bread. He took the basket in his mouth and tro... 阅读全文>> 日期:2008-10-08 There was once upon a time an old goat who had seven little kids, and loved them with all the love of a mother for her children. One day she wanted to go into the forest and fetch some food. So she called all seven to her and said: 'Dear children, I... 阅读全文>> 日期:2008-10-06 Many many years ago lived an emperor, who thought so much of new clothes that he spent all his money in order to obtain them; his only ambition was to be always well dressed. He did not care for his soldiers, and the theatre did not amuse him; the o... 阅读全文>> 日期:2008-10-06 T was lovely summer weather in the country, and the golden corn, the green oats, and the haystacks piled up in the meadows looked beautiful. The stork walking about on his long red legs chattered in the Egyptian language, which he had learnt from hi... 阅读全文>> 日期:2008-10-06 NCE upon a time there was little girl, pretty and dainty. But in summer time she was obliged to go barefooted because she was poor, and in winter she had to wear large wooden shoes, so that her little instep grew quite red. In the middle of the vill... 阅读全文>> 日期:2008-10-06 HERE was once a fine gentleman who possessed among other things a boot-jack and a hair-brush; but he had also the finest shirt-collar in the world, and of this collar we are about to hear a story. The collar had become so old that he began to think... 阅读全文>> 日期:2008-10-06 HE Flea, the Grasshopper, and the Skipjack1 once wanted to see which of them could jump highest; and they invited the whole world, and whoever else would come, to see the grand sight. And there the three famous jumpers were met together in the room.... 阅读全文>> 日期:2008-10-06 Here were once five peas in one shell, they were green, the shell was green, and so they believed that the whole world must be green also, which was a very natural conclusion. The shell grew, and the peas grew, they accommodated themselves to their... 阅读全文>> 日期:2008-10-06 EAR the shores of the great Belt, which is one of the straits that connect the Cattegat with the Baltic, stands an old mansion with thick red walls. I know every stone of it, says the Wind. I saw it when it was part of the castle of Marck Stig on th... 阅读全文>> 日期:2008-10-06 HERE 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, with a very critical eye, at all the flower-beds, and found that the flowers were seated quietly and... 阅读全文>> 日期:2008-06-21 THERE were two cocks- one on the dung-hill, the other on the roof. They were both arrogant, but which of the two rendered most service? Tell us your opinion- we'll keep to ours just the same though. The poultry yard was divided by some planks from a... 阅读全文>> 日期:2008-06-21 IT is more than a hundred years ago! At the border of the wood, near a large lake, stood the old mansion: deep ditches surrounded it on every side, in which reeds and bulrushes grew. Close by the drawbridge, near the gate, there was an old willow tr... 阅读全文>> 日期:2008-06-21 MANY, many years ago lived an emperor, who thought so much of new clothes that he spent all his money in order to obtain them; his only ambition was to be always well dressed. He did not care for his soldiers, and the theatre did not amuse him; the... 阅读全文>> 日期:2008-06-21 A FEW large lizards were running nimbly about in the clefts of an old tree; they could understand one another very well, for they spoke the lizard language. What a buzzing and a rumbling there is in the elfin hill, said one of the lizards; I have no... 阅读全文>> 日期:2008-06-21 IN the midst of a garden grew a rose-tree, in full blossom, and in the prettiest of all the roses lived an elf. He was such a little wee thing, that no human eye could see him. Behind each leaf of the rose he had a sleeping chamber. He was as well f... 阅读全文>> 日期:2008-06-21 IN the high-road which led through a wood stood a solitary farm-house; the road, in fact, ran right through its yard. The sun was shining and all the windows were open; within the house people were very busy. In the yard, in an arbour formed by lila... 阅读全文>> 日期:2008-06-21 WE are travelling to Paris to the Exhibition. Now we are there. That was a journey, a flight without magic. We flew on the wings of steam over the sea and across the land. Yes, our time is the time of fairy tales. We are in the midst of Paris, in a... 阅读全文>> |
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