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Stories for the household (1889)

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 730

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in his cradle. He bade farewell to his paternal roof in the Tree of the Sun, anddeparted on foot through the pleasant scenery of home. Arrived at itsconfines, he mounted on the back of an ostrich, which runs faster thana horse ; and afterwards, when be fell in with the wild swans, he swunghimself… … THE DEPARTURE OF THE THIRD BROTHER. shine travelled with him across the fields, for every flower, every bush,every tree exhaled a new fragrance, in the consciousness that a friendand protector was in the neighbourhood, who understood them andknew their value. The crippled rose bush reared up its…

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