Tag: fantasy
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The Rose Elf
By Hans christen Andersen in the midst of a garden grew a rose-tree; upon it were many, many roses; in one of them, the most beautiful of all, lived an elf. He was so very small that no human eye could perceive him. Behind every petal of the rose he had a bedroom. No child…
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Rudyard Kipling: How The Camel got His Hump
In the beginning of years, when the world was so new-and-all, and the Animals were just beginning to work for Man, there was a Camel, and he lived in the middle of a Howling Desert because he did not want to work; and besides, he was a Howler himself. So he ate sticks and thorns…
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Rudyard Kipling: How the whale got his throat.
In the sea, once upon a time, O my best beloved, there was a whale and he ate fishes. He ate the starfish, and the garfish and the crab and the dab, and the plaice and the dace, and the skate and his mate, and the mackereel and the pickereel, and the really truly twirly-whirly…
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Rudyard Kipling:The Butterfly That Stamped
Suleiman-bin-Daoud’s wisdom shines through a humorous tale, teaching humility amidst his many quarrelsome wives.
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