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September 16, 2017

THE SHADOW by Hans Christian Andersen

It is in the hot lands that the sun burns, sure enough! there the people become quite a mahogany brown, ay, and in the HOTTEST lands they are burnt to Negroes. But now it...

September 15, 2017

THE FALSE COLLAR by Hans Christian Andersen

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...

September 14, 2017

THE STORY OF A MOTHER by Hans Christian Andersen

A mother sat there with her little child. She was so downcast, so afraid that it should die! It was so pale, the small eyes had closed themselves, and it drew its breath so...

September 13, 2017

HOW THE KING OF PAGAN CAUGHT THE THIEF (SHAN FOLK LORE STORIES, 1902) BY WILLIAM C. GRIGGS

MANY, many years ago there lived near the old city of Pagan a famous robber chief who was so fierce and cruel that he made all men fear his name. He stole and killed and burned...

September 12, 2017

HOW THE WORLD WAS CREATED (SHAN FOLK LORE STORIES, 1902) BY WILLIAM C. GRIGGS

IN the beginning of the world, many, many cycles ago, so long ago, in fact, that no man knows how long it was, there were no trees, no hills, no land, nothing but water. The wind...

September 11, 2017

THE SPARROW’S WONDERFUL BROOD (SHAN FOLK LORE STORIES, 1902) BY WILLIAM C. GRIGGS

MANY, many years ago, at the beginning of the world, a little sparrow built her nest on the top of a tall tree that grew near the edge of a lake. In it she laid five...