Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875, Dulcken, H. W. (Henry William), 1832-1894, Bayes, Alfred Walter, 1832-1909, ill · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 398
g snail pair now ruled in the forest, and had a numerousprogeny. But as the young ones were never boiled and put into silverdishes, they concluded that the ducal palace had fallen in, and that allthe people in the world had died out. And as nobody contradicted them,they must have been right. And… … THE ROSE-ELF. IN the midst of the garden grew a rose bush, which was quite coveredwith roses; and in one of them, the most beautiful of all, there dweltan elf. He was so tiny that no human eye could see him. Behindevery leaf in the rose he had a bed-room. He was as well formed andbeautiful as any…
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