The Bookshelf for boys and girls Little Journeys into Bookland (1912)
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airies had changed himin his cradle. The girl was very matter-of-fact,and she only replied to his fanciful tale by turn-ing to some playmates and exclaiming, He ismad, like his grandfather. Alas, it was true hisgrandfather was weak-witted, and this unhappyreception of one of his earliest efforts to… … GEORGE MACDONALD. HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN. JAKOB AND WILHELM GRIMM. 89 90 WRITERS OF FAIRY STORIES would be well worth telling. We can only, how-ever, mention a very few of the facts of his life.His father died when the lad was eleven, andeven at that age he had made very poor use ofhis schooling,…
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