# Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales

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HANS ANDERSEN’S
FAIRY TALES.
The Fir-tree.
HANS ANDERSEN’S
FAIRY TALES
A NEW TRANSLATION BY Mrs. H. B. PAULL, Editor of “Grimm’s Fairy Tales.”
With Original Illustrations, AND SIXTEEN PAGE PLATES PRINTED IN COLOURS.
LONDON AND NEW YORK: FREDERICK WARNE AND CO.
PUBLISHER’S PREFACE.
This new edition of Hans Andersen contains several additional Fairy Tales, for the first time translated from the Danish by Mrs. Paull, to whose able pen we are indebted for the previous editions. The sixteen Coloured Plates and the Woodcut Illustrations are from the hand of a Danish Artist, who is considered to have an especial gift for depicting the scenes described by his celebrated countryman.
CONTENTS.
PAGE :
| The Fir-Tree | 1 |
| The Brave Tin Soldier | 7 |
| Little Tiny | 11 |
| The Goblin and the Huckster | 18 |
| A Great Sorrow | 21 |
| The Silver Shilling | 22 |
| The Ugly Duckling | 25 |
| The Roses and the Sparrows | 33 |
| Little Tuk | 41 |
| Grandmother | 44 |
| The Old Gravestone | 46 |
| The Bell-Deep | 50 |
| The Beetle who went on his Travels | 53 |
| Elder-Tree Mother | 58 |
| The Nightingale | 65 |
| Ole Luk-Oie, the Dream-God | 71 |
| The Old Bachelor’s Nightcap | 79 |
| The Elf of the Rose | 88 |
| The Angel | 92 |
| The Pea Blossom | 94 |
| Ib and Little Christina | 97 |
| The Bottle Neck | 106 |
| The Flax | 113 |
| The Last Dream of the Old Oak | 117 |
| The Girl who Trod on the Loaf | 121 |
| The Daisy | 126 |
| The Old House | 129 |
| The Happy Family | 135 |
| The Metal Pig | 137 |
| The Emperor’s New Clothes | 145 |
| The Last Pearl | 149 |
| The Tinder-Box | 151 |
| The Red Shoes | 156 |
| The Golden Treasure | 161 |
| The Butterfly | 168 |
| The Dumb Book | 170 |
| The Gardener | 172 |
| She was Good for Nothing | 178 |
| Little Ida’s Flowers | 184 |
| The Conceited Apple-Branch | 189 |
| The Sunbeam and the Captive | 192 |
| The Storks | 193 |
| The Philosopher’s Stone | 197 ​ |
| The Loveliest Rose in the World | 207 |
| The Snow Man | 209 |
| The Story of the Year | 214 |
| The Story of a Mother | 220 |
| The Jewish Maiden | 225 |
| The Darning-Needle | 229 |
| The Little Match-seller | 232 |
| The Travelling Companion | 234 |
| The Jumpers | 247 |
| The Swineherd | 249 |
| A Leaf from Heaven | 254 |
| Anne Lisbeth | 257 |
| A Cheerful Temper | 264 |
| The Top and Ball | 268 |
| The Wild Swans | 270 |
| Everything in its Right Place | 281 |
| The Money-Box | 287 |
| The Shadow | 289 |
| The Racers | 298 |
| It is quite True | 300 |
| The Buckwheat | 303 |
| Soup from a Sausage Skewer | 305 |
| The Bell, or Nature's Music | 315 |
| The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-Cock | 319 |
| The Snow Queen | 321 |
| The Portuguese Duck | 344 |
| The Flying Trunk | 348 |
| The Little Mermaid | 353 |
| The Pen and the Inkstand | 370 |
| What the Moon Saw | 373 |
| What the Old Man does is always Right | 379 |
| A Rose from Homer's Grave | 383 |
| The Garden of Paradise | 385 |
| The Mail-Coach Passengers | 395 |
| The Mischievous Boy | 398 |
| Under the Willow-Tree | 401 |
| The Old Man and the Angel | 412 |
| Little Claus and Big Claus | 417 |
| The Shepherdess and the Sweep | 426 |
| The Puppet-Show Man | 430 |
| The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship | 433 |
| The Old Street Lamp | 439 |
| The Old Church Bell | 445 |
| The Mother's Love | 449 |
| The Shirt Collar | 453 |
| Children’s Prattle | 455 |
| Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind | 457 |
| The Story of the Wind | 462 |
| A Story | 470 |
| Something | 475 |
| A Story from the Sand-Hills | 481 |
| The Elfin Hill | 504 |
| Holger Danske | 509 |
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