Lean Lisa was of a very different way of thinking from lazy Harry and fat Trina, who never let anything disturb their peace. She scoured everything with ashes, from morning till evening, and burdened...
Once on a time a poor pious peasant died, and arrived before the gate of heaven. At the sametime a very rich, rich lord came there who also wanted to get into heaven. Then Saint Peter camewith the ke...
There were once a man and a woman who had an only child, and lived quite alone in a solitaryvalley. It came to pass that the mother once went into the wood to gather branches of fir, andtook with her...
There was once upon a time a King, but where he reigned and whathe was called, I do not know. He had no son, but an only daughterwho had always been ill, and no doctor had been able to cure her.Then ...
Harry was lazy, and although he had nothing else to do butdrive his goat daily to pasture, he nevertheless groaned when he went home after his day's work was done. "It is indeed aheavy burden," sa...
there was once a poor widow who lived in a lonely cottage. infront of the cottage was a garden wherein stood two rose-trees,one of which bore white and the other red roses. she had twochildren who w...
I will tell you something. I saw two roasted fowls flying; they flew quickly and had their breasts turned to heaven and their backs to hell, and an anvil and a mill-stone swam across the Rhine pretti...
In the time of Schlauraffen I went there, and saw Rome and theLateran hanging by a small silken thread, and a man without feet who outran a swift horse, and a keen sharp sword that cut through a bridg...
There was once on a time a maiden who was pretty, but idle and negligent. When she had to spin she was so out of temper that if there was a little knot in the flax, sheat once pulled out a whole heap...
There was once a young shepherd who wished much to marry,and was acquainted with three sisters who were all equally pretty,so that it was difficult to him to make a choice, and he could not decide to ...
