akorn - Mighty Old Tales Retold

The country around the town of Koege is very bare. The town itself lies by the seashore, which is always beautiful, although it might be more beautiful than it is, because all around are flat fields, and a forest a long way off.

There was a student, who lived in the garret and didn't own anything. There was also a grocer, who kept the shop on the ground floor and owned the whole house.

It was over a hundred years ago. By the great lake behind the wood there stood an old mansion.

The story we have for you here is really divided into two parts.

The most solemn of all the days of our life is the day we die.

From my father I have inherited that most worthy of bequests -- a cheerful temper.

"It's a dreadful story," said a hen, and she said it in a part of town, too, where it had not taken place.

It was the latter part of January, and a heavy snowfall was driving down.

Between the Baltic and the North Sea there lives an old swan's nest, and it is called Denmark.

In a small provincial town lived a man who owned his own house.