Fifth Evening
Fifth Evening "Yesterday," said the Moon, "I looked down on the busy city of Paris - and my gaze penetrated into the apartments of the Louvre. An…
Five Peas from a Pod
Five Peas from a Pod There were five peas in one pod; the peas were green and the pod was green, and so they believed that the whole world was…
The Old Church Bell
The Old Church Bell In the German country of Württemberg, where the beautiful acacia trees bloom beside the highways, and the apple and pear trees…
The Great Sea Serpent
The Great Sea Serpent There was a little sea fish of good family, the name of which I don't remember; that the more learned will have to tell you.…
The Comet
The Comet Now there came a comet with its shiny nucleus and its menacing tail. People from the great castles and people from the poor huts gazed at…
She Was Good for Nothing
She Was Good for Nothing The mayor was standing at his open window; he was wearing a dress shirt with a dainty breastpin in its frill. He was very…
Fifteenth Evening
Fifteenth Evening "I sailed over Lüneburg Heath," the Moon said. "A lonely hut stood there by the roadside. Around it grew a few withered bushes…
The Will-o’-the-Wisps Are in Town
The Will-o'-the-Wisps Are in Town There was a man who once had known a great many new fairy tales, but he had forgotten them, he said. The fairy…
The Pigs
The Pigs Dear Charles Dickens once told us the story of the pig, and since that time it has put us in a good humor just to hear one grunt. Saint…
Twentieth Evening
Twentieth Evening "I come from Rome," the Moon said. "There on one of the seven hills in the middle of the city are the ruins of the Emperor's…
Godfather’s Picture Book
Godfather's Picture Book Godfather could tell stories, so many of them and such long ones, and he could cut out paper figures and draw pictures.…
Soup on a Sausage Peg
Soup on a Sausage Peg I. SOUP FROM A SAUSAGE PEG "That was a perfectly delightful dinner yesterday," one old female mouse told another, who had not…
Urbanus
Urbanus In a cloister there lived a young man named Urbanus, who was pious and studious. He was entrusted with the keys to the cloister's book…
The Elf Mound
The Elf Mound Several lizards darted briskly in and out of the cracks of a hollow tree. They understood each other perfectly, for they all spoke…
The Bond of Friendship
The Bond of Friendship We've recently made a little journey, and already we want to make a longer one. Where? To Sparta, or Mycenae, or Delphi?…
Seventeenth Evening
Seventeenth Evening Listen to what the Moon told me: "I have seen a cadet become an officer and dress himself in his handsome uniform for the first…
The Goblin and the Woman
The Goblin and the Woman You know the Goblin, but do you know the Woman-the Gardener's wife? She was very well read and knew poems by heart; yes,…
There is a Difference
There is a Difference It was in the month of May. The wind was still cold, but spring had come, said the trees and the bushes, the fields and the…
Sixth Evening
Sixth Evening "I have been to Upsala," the Moon told me. "I looked down on the great plain covered with coarse grass and on the barren fields. I saw…
