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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1883 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE FIR-TREE. UT in the woods stood a nice little Fir-tree. The place he had was a very good one: the sun shone on him ; as to fresh air, there was enough of that, and round him grew many large-sized comrades, pines as well as firs. But the little Fir wanted so very much to be a grown-up tree. He did not think of the warm sun and of the fresh air ; he did not care for the little cot- tage-chil d r e n that ran about THE FIR-TREES WISH. in and prattled when they were in the woods looking for wild strawberries. The children often came with a whole pitcherful of berries, or a long row of them threaded on a straw, and sat down near the young tree and said, ' Oh, how pretty he is ! what a nice little fir!' But this was what the tree could not bear to hear. At the end of a year he had shot up a good deal, and after another year he was another long bit taller ; for with fir-trees one can always tell by the shoots how many years old they are. ' Oh ! were I but such a high tree as the others are, ' sighed he. ' Then I should be able to spread out my branches, and with the tops to look into the wide world ! Then would the birds build nests among my branches ; and when there was a breeze, I could bend with as much stateliness as the others !' Neither the sunbeams, nor the birds, nor the red clouds which morning and evening sailed above him gave the little tree any pleasure. In winter, when the snow lay glittering on the ground, a hare would often come leaping along, and jump right over the little tree. Oh, that made him so angry! But two winters were past, and in the third the tree was so large that the ha
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The Shoes of Fortune, and Other Fairy Tales [tr. by C. Boner]. With a Biographical Sketch of Andersen by K.r.h. Mackenzie
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