



Produced by Al Haines




FAIRY TALES OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN



CONTENTS

  A Story
  By the Almshouse Window
  The Angel
  Anne Lisbeth

  Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind
  The Beetle who went on his Travels
  The Bell
  The Bell-deep
  The Bird of Popular Song
  The Bishop of Borglum and his Warriors
  The Bottle Neck
  The Buckwheat
  The Butterfly

  A Cheerful Temper
  The Child in the Grave
  Children's Prattle
  The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock

  The Daisy
  The Darning-Needle
  Delaying is not Forgetting
  The Drop of Water
  The Dryad
  Jack the Dullard
  The Dumb Cook

  The Elf of the Rose
  The Elfin Hill
  The Emperor's New Suit

  The Fir Tree
  The Flax
  The Flying Trunk
  The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship

  The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf
  The Goblin and the Huckster
  The Golden Treasure
  The Goloshes of Fortune
  She was Good for Nothing
  Grandmother
  A Great Grief

  The Happy Family
  A Leaf from Heaven
  Holger Danske

  Ib and Little Christina
  The Ice Maiden

  The Jewish Maiden
  The Jumper

  The Last Dream of the Old Oak
  The Last Pearl
  Little Claus and Big Claus
  The Little Elder-tree Mother
  Little Ida's Flowers
  The Little Match-seller
  The Little Mermaid
  Little Tiny or Thumbelina
  Little Tuk
  The Loveliest Rose in the World

  The Mail-coach Passengers
  The Marsh King's Daughter
  The Metal Pig
  The Money-box
  What the Moon Saw

  The Neighbouring Families
  The Nightingale
  There is no Doubt about it
  In the Nursery

  The Old Bachelor's Nightcap
  The Old Church Bell
  The Old Grave-stone
  The Old House
  What the Old Man Does is Always Right
  The Old Street Lamp
  Ole-Luk-Oie, the Dream God
  Ole the Tower-keeper
  Our Aunt

  The Garden of Paradise
  The Pea Blossom
  The Pen and the Inkstand
  The Philosopher's Stone
  The Phoenix Bird
  The Portuguese Duck
  The Porter's Son
  Poultry Meg's Family
  The Princess and the Pea
  The Psyche
  The Puppet-show Man

  The Races
  The Red Shoes
  Everything in the Right Place
  A Rose from Homer's Grave
  The Snail and the Rose-tree

  A Story from the Sand-hills
  The Saucy Boy
  The Shadow
  The Shepherdess and the Sheep
  The Silver Shilling
  The Shirt-collar
  The Snow Man
  The Snow Queen
  The Snowdrop
  Something
  Soup from a Sausage Skewer
  The Storks
  The Storm Shakes the Shield
  The Story of a Mother
  The Sunbeam and the Captive
  The Swan's Nest
  The Swineherd

  The Thistle's Experiences
  The Thorny Road of Honor
  In a Thousand Years
  The Brave Tin Soldier
  The Tinder-box
  The Toad
  The Top and Ball
  The Travelling Companion
  Two Brothers
  Two Maidens

  The Ugly Duckling
  Under the Willow Tree
  In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea

  What One Can Invent
  The Wicked Prince
  The Wild Swans
  The Will-o-the-Wisp in the Town, Says the Wild Woman
  The Story of the Wind
  The Windmill

  The Story of the Year




A STORY

In the garden all the apple-trees were in blossom.  They had
hastened to bring forth flowers before they got green leaves, and in
the yard all the ducklings walked up and down, and the cat too: it
basked in the sun and licked the sunshine from its own paws.  And
when one looked at the fields, how beautifully the corn stood and
how green it shone, without comparison! and there was a twittering and
a fluttering of all the little birds, as if the day were a great
festival; and so it was, for it was Sunday.  All the bells were
ringing, and all the people went to church, looking cheerful, and
dressed in their best clothes.  There was a look of cheerfulness on
everything.  The day was so warm and