Fairy Tales English

Have you ever seen «a maiden»? I am referring to what road pavers call a «maiden,» a thing used for ramming down the paving stones. «She» is made entirely of…

That was a terrible affair!” said a hen, and in a quarter of the town, too, where it had not taken place. “That was a terrible affair in a hen-roost.…

It was in the month of May. The wind was still cold, but spring had come, said the trees and the bushes, the fields and the meadows. Everywhere flowers were…

Far, far away where the swallows fly when we have winter, there lived a King who had eleven sons and one daughter, Elisa. The eleven brothers, Princes all, each went…

It was so beautiful in the country. It was the summer time. The wheat fields were golden, the oats were green, and the hay stood in great stacks in the…

Poor John was very sad; for his father was so ill, he had no hope of his recovery. John sat alone with the sick man in the little room, and…

A top and a ball were lying together in a drawer among a lot of other toys. The top said to the ball, “Since we live in the same drawer,…

The well was deep, and therefore the rope was long; the wheel went around with difficulty when the waterfilled bucket had to be pulled up over the side of the…

There came a soldier marching down the high road-one, two! one, two! He had his knapsack on his back and his sword at his side as he came home from…

When the wind sweeps over the grass, the blades of grass ripple like the water of a lake; and when it sweeps over the cornfield, the ears of corn curl…