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In a village dwelt a poor old woman, who had gathered together a dish of beans and wanted to cook them.
There was once upon a time an old goat who had seven little kids, and loved them with all the love of a mother for her children.
There was once a forester who went into the forest to hunt, and as he entered it he heard a sound of screaming as if a little child were there.
There were once a man and a woman who had long in vain wished for a child.
A shepherd’s dog had a master who took no care of him, but often let him suffer the greatest hunger.
The king of a great land died, and left his queen to take care of their only child.
The wife of a rich man fell sick; and when she felt that her end drew nigh, she called her only daughter to her bed-side, and said, ‘Always be a good girl, and I will look down from heaven and watch over you.’ Soon afterwards she shut her eyes and died, and was buried in the garden; and the little girl went every day to her grave and wept, and was always good and kind to all about her.
A king and queen once upon a time reigned in a country a great way off, where there were in those days fairies.
A poor woodman sat in his cottage one night, smoking his pipe by the fireside, while his wife sat by his side spinning.
Pushing his adventurous shins through the deep snow that had fallen overnight, and encouraged by the glee of his little sister, following in the open way that he made, a sturdy small boy, the son of Grayville's most distinguished citizen, struck his foot against something of which there was no visible sign on the surface of the snow.