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A certain king had a beautiful garden, and in the garden stood a tree which bore golden apples.
Some men are born to good luck: all they do or try to do comes right—all that falls to them is so much gain—all their geese are swans—all their cards are trumps—toss them which way you will, they will always, like poor puss, alight upon their legs, and only move on so much the faster.
There was once an old castle, that stood in the middle of a deep gloomy wood, and in the castle lived an old fairy.
It was the green heart of the canyon, where the walls swerved back from the rigid plan and relieved their harshness of line by making a little sheltered nook and filling it to the brim with sweetness and roundness and softness.
One sunny autumn afternoon a child strayed away from its rude home in a small field and entered a forest unobserved.
A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below.