LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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| “Zounds!” said the farmer, hastily opening the oven | 204 |
| The farmer opened the lid a little, and peeped in | 205 |
| “What can he want it for?” thought Big Claus, as he smeared the bottom of it with tar | 206 |
| Fell to belabouring Big Claus’s shoulders | 207 |
| Seized his axe, and killed his old grandmother at a blow | 208 |
| “The moment I fell upon it the loveliest girl imaginable took me by the hand” | 209 |
| “There’s no fear about that,” said Little Claus; still he put a large stone into the bag | 209 |
| The Shadow | |
| In the midst of the flowers stood a slender, lovely maiden | 211 |
| A light was burning in the room, just behind him | 211 |
| He perceived, to his great joy, that a new shadow had sprouted out of his legs | 212 |
| “Come in,” said he; but no one came. So he opened the door | 213 |
| “Yes, I will tell you,” said the shadow, sitting down | 214 |
| I drew myself up to my full height along the walls, which tickled my vanity very agreeably | 215 |
| The shadow always managed to take the precedence | 216 |
| She immediately perceived that the newly-arrived stranger was quite a different sort of person to everybody else | 217 |
| Being a king’s daughter, she was not obliged to stand upon ceremony | 217 |
| On all of which topics the learned man answered with sense and judgment | 218 |
| “I will go straight to the king’s daughter,” said the learned man | 219 |
| “It is a hard case, for he was a faithful servant,” said the shadow, pretending to sigh | 220 |
| The Story of a Mother | |
| The mother then wrung her hands, wept, and sang | 221 |
| And she wept and wept till her eyes dissolved into the lake and became two costly pearls | 222 |
| And Death stretched out his hand towards the little delicate flower | 223 |
| The Flying Trunk | |
| “I say, you Turkish nurse,” cried he, “what is that large castle near the town, where the windows are placed so high?” | 226 |
| She lay asleep on the sofa, and looked so beautiful that the merchant’s son could not help kissing her | 227 |
| The king and queen and the whole court were at tea with the princess, and he was received very politely | 228 |
| The boys in the streets stood on tip-toe, cried hurrah! and whistled through their fingers | 229 |
| She stood on the roof, and waited the whole day long | 229 |
| The Tinder Box | |
| And he set the dog on the witch’s apron | 231 |
| “Do you know what?” said the soldier. “You must either tell me at once what you mean to do with it, or I’ll draw my sword and cut your head off” | 232 |
| She lay asleep on the dog’s back, and was so lovely that everybody might see she was a real princess | 233 |
| “But there’s one and there’s another,” said all present, for, whichever way they looked, there were crosses on all the doors | 234 |
| “I say, you shoemaker’s ’prentice, you needn’t be in such a hurry,” said the soldier | 235 |
| The Goloshes of Happiness | |
| These goloshes have the property instantly to transport whomsoever shall put them on, to the place and time he best likes | 236 |
